WARD@USC-ISIF.ARPA (06/29/84)
From: Craig E. Ward <WARD@USC-ISIF.ARPA> Date: 25 Jun 84 12:48:00-PDT (Mon) To: space @ Mit-Mc.arpa From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!gamma!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Discovery Launch Delayed ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jun 84 9:52:27-PDT (Tue) To: space @ Mit-Mc.arpa From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!gamma!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Post Ignition Abort ------------------------------ -------------------- The net is not a very good vehicle for distributing late breaking news. Please, if you're not going to elaborate, don't send out yesterday's news! (I deleted the text to save space). Thanks in advance, Craig
sxn%bbncc-washington@sri-unix.UUCP (07/02/84)
From: Stephen X. Nahm <sxn@bbncc-washington> Craig, First, you should be able to tell from the "From:" field that these messages come from the uucp net; that net doesn't use the digest format of info-space@mit-mc, so the messages won't have the same delay (and for sites close to 'alice', they might even be timely :-). Second, even if the news is stale, I like hearing about just what happened from those who know; the general news outlets tend to heavily filter the information for the masses. Glad to be of help, Steve
WARD@USC-ISIF.ARPA (07/02/84)
From: Craig E. Ward <WARD@USC-ISIF.ARPA> Steve, What net they come from isn't important. Perhaps if I had not deleted to text you would have noticed that these messages did not add anything to what was being reported over the mass media. I too enjoy hearing extra information from those who have better sources; however, merely repeating the thirty word contents of a radio news report will not be timely even for sites close to 'alice' and I object to seeing it in the digest. Craig