Ross Wright wrote:
On or About 3 Nov 96 at 14:46, Derek Bell wrote:
I'm not happy with the barring of Vulis from the list
Just want to add my 2 cents. I am also unhappy with the fact that he was removed. My personal correspondence with Vulis has been friendly and he has been very helpful.
Someone (Gilmore?) mentioned new subscribers being a problem, not knowing how to filter and so on. Would periodic postings for new subscribers, in addition to the initial welcome message, be a possible solve for this? Please don't curse me for this next idea, as I'm not really familiar with what goes on on a mail server: How about if everyone could send to the list with the subject line containing in [] brackets one of several strings from a list maintained by the server, examples being [NOISE], [RANT], [CRYPTO], [NEWS] etc., and for postings without one of the selections, the line could default to [NOISE] or whatever. I don't mean to propose anything heavy-handed, but there ought to be a way to apply a *little* more technology to get a *little* cleaner list, without impeding the "lower end" of the signal. Unless, of course, there are other technical or personal reasons for blocking the "Doctor" that I'm not aware of.