mikey@ontek.UUCP (Michael "Gorby" Lee) (02/27/90)
In talk.bizarre, various AI experiments write: | ~$|$%+$*$|>|$|$|$|$>$|>|$|?>|$>>>>>>>>of course you know, this means war | ~$|$%+$*$|>|$|$|$|$>$|>|$|?>|$>>>>>>>You realise, of course, this means war. | [lots of bytes deleted] Over the last several months there has been a strong interest in this type of article. Clearly not enough to sustain its own newsgroup but the volume and longevity of this thread warrants at the least its own mailing list. The obvious questions are (1) what is the charter of this new mailing list (2) who is moderating this new list (3) what membership will the list have initially (4) comments and suggestion period _C_H_A_R_T_E_R The mailing list will be called info-inconvenience-list. It will be moderated but not digested. Articles will be accepted based solely on their inconvenience. Timely or informative postings will be rejected by the moderator. Endless follow ups are strongly encouraged; preference is given to followups containing words which sound similar to ones in previously cited articles *without* actual rhyming taking place. The moderator will have complete authority to reject convenient articles at his/her discretion. Articles consisting of entire termcap entries and output from any of the currently available banner programs is acceptable. Policy on "stale" topics: stale topics are expressly encouraged. Policy on reposting: reposting is expressly encouraged. All in all, the purposes of this mailing list are wasting as much bandwidth as possible among the people which appeciate it the most, reducing volume on talk.bizarre, filling up various spool queues we can find around the country and, in general, pissing off the system administrators that we know and love. _M_O_D_E_R_A_T_O_R I will be the initial moderator for the info-inconvenince-list. I will run the list from the Commodore VIC/20 I have at home. To get submissions onto the list address them to info-inconvenience-list@uunet!psuvm!danish.krill.uucp.com add/drop requests should be sent to info-inconvenience-list-request@uunet!psuvm!danish.krill.uucp.com Please note that these addresses are very long and thus are quite inconvenient to type. _I_N_I_T_I_A_L _M_E_M_B_E_R_S_H_I_P Everyone who has posted an article to talk.bizarre or alt.slack in the last sixty days will automatically be put on the list. The first several hundred articles distributed by the list will be recaps from talk.bizarre's thread of inconvenient articles. These include those "Too comfortable for smurfs" articles and perhaps even some cullings from rec.humors "Re: weird" thread. Add/drop requests will be handled after the moderator finishes the processing of the initial inconvenience articles and comes back from vacation in July. Preference will be given to the most inconvenient add/drop requests, especially those with incorrect or missing return e-mail addresses. All requests from an address ending in !root will be dropped by the software ostensibly to prevent infinite replies to bounced mail. Although that is just the kind of inconvenient thing the list needs to get started. _C_O_M_M_E_N_T_S/_S_U_G_G_E_S_T_I_O_N_S Please forward all comments to the moderator before the end of the discussion period on 02/25/90. All e-mail sent after that date will inconveniently be forwarded to /dev/null due to a sudden change with the VIC/20 sendmail system. With your help, we can make this mailing list work. -- Carasso is my hero | You Don't Have To | Please notice how nicely this paragraph is adjusted | Pizza enjoys: YOU | It's already there | Krill are yummy & crunchy | Have a fish | Angst: it's not just for breakfast anymore | You are Not Allowed | Eat me I'm a danish | Have a fish | Hi