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In , on 11/29/96
at 05:55 PM, Asgaard said:
::> Rule 2: Don't forward articles from other forums to
::> cypherpunks. We can find it ourselves the same place you did
::This is not universally true. Everyone doesn't have access to a
::functional News server or even to the Web, and some interesting stuff
::could come from closed commercial sites etc.
::
for instance, I read a lot of liberal hogwash lists [know thine
enemy]. there are lists after lists about lists. sorting out the
precisely cut and trimmed info is hard --and there is not time to
read a man who is being paid by the word!
good summaries with pointers is essential.
:: [snip] ...to be able to request longer pieces with very few keystrokes,
::jya-style.
::
john provides an extremely valuable service by covering a broad
spectrum of sources. since I read others, I am considering using
the auto-respond features of procmail to do the same. however, I
sure wont cover as much ground as john does!
:: The most lazy of us will hardly even light up our browsers
::for a maybe-interesting URL.
::
unfortunately, that is too true --even when your mail browser
will pass the URL to the browser which is often in the background
anyway.
::The problem is off-topic or quasi-on-topic forwards, including EPIC/EFF
::kind of announcements.
::
hard to discern sometimes
::And all forwards would benefit from a personal
::comment by the forwarder (at the beginning of the mail, NOT after the 10
::screens document) where he explains what is interesting cp-wise.
ABSOLUTELY! always put your comments and the "pointer" out front
--even if you are planning interline comments.
- --
without arms they do not resist;
without communication they know not what to resist.
-attila
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