steck@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler) (11/28/89)
Please add me to the mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Paul Steckler | << Were I Britannia, | | steck@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu | I'd waive the rules >> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (11/29/89)
Please use the -REQUEST address for mailing lists. See note at end. (It also seemed time to remind everyoine on the list of this as well.) thanx -len Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 23:21:04 EST From: Paul Steckler <steck@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu> Please add me to the mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Paul Steckler | << Were I Britannia, | | steck@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu | I'd waive the rules >> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rlk's advice applies to your request for this list as well!! Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1986 18:44 EST From: "Robert L. Krawitz" <RLK@oz.ai.mit.edu> To: info-nets@oz.ai.mit.edu Subject: Sending requests to the list at large and other administrivia Recently, a number of people have requested to be removed by sending mail to the list as a whole. This is very bad practice. First of all, the address info-nets-request exists for that purpose. In fact, the -request convention is standard throughout the arpanet, to solve this problem. Secondly, sending mail to the list reaches at least 300 recipients, very likely more than that, since I have no idea how large the various redistribution lists are (there are perhaps 250 actual addresses on the top-level list). Thirdly, there is no reason why info-nets mail should go to the same addresses. For all anyone knows, I don't read info-nets (in fact, I do; it would be poor practice not to), the mail goes to completely independent addresses (this is in fact true), or I may have written a program to automatically process requests (I haven't). It is still more convenient to me to process requests to info-nets-request than to info-nets. So, please remember to post administrative requests to <list-name>-request rather than to <list name>; specifically info-nets-request rather than info-nets. I deliberately have not yet processed the requests that went to info-nets rather than to info-nets-request; I would like those people to read this message. Robert Krawitz info-nets-request