ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold") (05/02/90)
There's been a lot of interesting mail to icon-group recently. We're encouraged to see this activity and hope it will keep up. Please bear in mind when you're sending e-mail to icon-group that long messages sometimes cause problems. The main difficulty is when one person responds to icon-group mail and includes most or all of the text of the message toward which the response is directed. This sometimes makes such responses very bulky. While this is no problem for most persons on icon-group, it is for some. Persons who get icon-group mail via a modem connections may have difficulty receiving long messages and it's also expensive for them. Long messages also may be refused by electronic gateways. This, for example, can prevent icon-group mail from getting to electronic news distribution. Please take a little extra time when composing lengthy messages to be sure you only include relevant information. Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721 +1 602 621 6609 ralph@cs.arizona.edu uunet!arizona!ralph