space@mit-mc (02/15/85)
From: Sidney Markowitz <SIDNEY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA> I would like to call for a vote concerning the recently implemented connection to the usenet newsgroups. Up until now SPACE digest has mostly consisted of informational articles and discussions conducted at a surprisingly high level, considering that it is compiled in an automated fashion, rather than edited by hand as are most arpanet digests. Now my mail box is being filled with trivial conversations and redundant messages. Can we have a separate mailing list for those who really want to receive net.space and net.columbia (or whatever they're called)? This message is intended to be an announcement, and as such has been mailed to the digest itself. Please mail your responses to space-request instead, and then we won't have to read through endless discussion on the matter before we find out what the mailing-list moderator's decision is. Flames to me, or preferably to your local equivalent of /dev/nul/. By the way, I am not proposing that usenet readers not be able to read the Space Digest. There exists the fa.newsgroups just for that purpose, or the precedent of AIList Digest which is posted on net.ai. -- Sidney Markowitz, <sidney%oz@mit-mc.arpa> -------