Jim's been pinged on this many, many times. He used to include tens of kilobytes of HTML pages with his postings, but at least he's gotten over that. I've come to the conclusion that Jim is unable to see things from another's viewpoint, and so regards it a bad trade to spend 30 seconds of his own time to save man-hours of wasted effort by his readers. The result, of course, is that he becomes progressively less effective at communication, as more and more people tune him out due to the low value of his postings. Adam: Jim regards unsolicited private email as a personal affront, and gets crabby about it. Peter Trei #include <std.disclaimer> "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> writes:

Hey Jim, why don't you just forward the whole damn site?

Adam Back[SMTP:adam@cypherspace.org] writes:

This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your subject line. Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your own summary, or something?

If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not useful; it's just a random pointer. Historically most of them are not even remotely crypto related.

I asked politely in private email if you would consider providing summaries. I received no reply. If you aren't going to provide summaries and meaningful subject lines, I politely ask that you stop sending the list random URLs.

Adam

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:28:14PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/032601/golfcourse_kehnemui_shuster.sml