A proposal for handling "forwards"
How about setting up a second e-mail list on majordomo, called "cypherpunks-fwds" or "cypherxtra" or some such thing. I, for one, am quite appreciative of receiving such posts as Jim Choate's forwards... but my disk space is abundant and my connection is permanent and not metered. I can understand why many people would prefer not to receive such things. This way people can choose whether they want to receive these types of longish, possible repeats (including the EFF announcements) or not. I guess I can think of reasons this might not be such a good idea (the new list might be completely empty, or it might be flooded with garbage, etc). But there it is... Doug __ __ __ __ Doug Cutrell / ) /__) /_ /\ / /| /| / /\ / / ) doug@OpenMind.com \_/ / (_ / \/ / |/ | / / \/ /__/ ===================================================================
On Sat, 9 Jul 1994, Doug Cutrell wrote:
How about setting up a second e-mail list on majordomo, called "cypherpunks-fwds" or "cypherxtra" or some such thing. I, for one, am quite appreciative of receiving such posts as Jim Choate's forwards... but my disk space is abundant and my connection is permanent and not metered. I can understand why many people would prefer not to receive such things.
This seems like an appropriate time to give a plug to the Extropians list software. If I remember correctly, there was a ::nosend command that people could use when forwarding long messages. The ::nosend command would cause the list processor to file the whole message in the archives, and only send out a pointer to it (a title in the index?). Those who wanted to retrieve the message could send a command to the list processor, requesting it. I don't know if Majordomo has anything similar... Joe
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