flon%usc-cse@USC-ECL (03/27/83)
Did we ever settle the issue of just what the subject of this mailing list is? When I joined it, it was to discuss problems and improvements for Gosling's Emacs. Then this CCA stuff started coming through, and there was a flurry of messages about whether that was appropriate. I really get enough mail about things I care about to be totally uninterested in mail about things I don't care about. Can't we arrange the mailing lists so that only those who WANT the CCA stuff get it? Larry
z (03/30/83)
The way things were left was that everyone on Usenet agreed that all news about all EMACSes should go into the single group net.emacs; the problem lay in the fact that this group gets automatically forwarded to Gosling's list. There seem to be three solutions: 1. Turn off the forwarding back to Gosling's list. Unfortunately, this means that people on that list would then lose a lot of relevant messages. 2. The people on Gosling's list could just ignore news about other EMACSes. This is what has been happening up till now, and since the articles about other EMACSes number only about a couple or so a month, most people haven't minded. 3. Make the articles that go from the newsgroup back to Gosling's list go through some sort of filter. For example, this filter could discard all articles that have CCA anywhere in their subject line. I assume it would be up to the person who arranged the forwarding in the first place to implement this solution. Steve Zimmerman