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Aucbvax.4761 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Oct 28 17:22:00 1981 Mail volume >From JNC@MIT-XX Wed Oct 28 15:48:41 1981 I think that the volume on this list, the propensity of people to say "REPLY ALL" (or have fucked up mail readers written by total brain-damaged cretins who make this the default) in reponse to questions (so that I get 9 messages telling me how to get a 68000C compiler which I don't want anyway (since people always reply before looking to see if others did)), the long flames on obscure topics, the occasional random misdirected message, and all the other problems that popular immediate distribution lists are heir to lead me to conclude that this list needs to be moderated and digested. I am too busy to spend a lot of time on this, and I suspect that many people who might have been valuable contibutors have already left because they are all busy too. Saying "you can use the delete key" doesn't work because I start deleting unix-wizards mail as soon as I see it, before considering it, so that I probably miss worthwhile things. I might as well not be on the list if I do that. Whaddya say, gang? -------

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