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From: jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Missing Persons Newsgroup
Summary: anyone ever heard of a postmaster?
Keywords: try again.
Message-ID: <2231@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 01:23:14 GMT
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Reply-To: jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
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In article <2230@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson) writes:
>(I forget who the original poster is, but..)

>>I see occasional postings by people trying to locate other people. Why
>>not create a new newsgroup called misc.missing.persons just for this
>>purpose?

NO! No no no no no no no.

What an amazing waste of resources. 

>[mark pans the idea, stating "who would read this group?"]
>Anyone follow me?  Does this make sense?

Yup, and there's one more thing. RFC822 requires sites to have a
"postmast/postmaster" alias/id on every system. If your site is even
remotely reasonably managed, mail to postmaster should be of some help
(even if it is just "try mailing the person a real letter or give him a
phone call--he/she doesn't have an account") If it isn't, mail to system or
operator or root or something equivalent (anything I'm missing) should get
somebody's attention. 

It beats posting to world asking "is Joe Schmoe out there?" Certainly less
bandwidth wasted. 

When the vote comes, receive my *no*.

>~mark
>Mark Shoulson:  shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu   shoulson@cunixc.bitnet
>                {...}!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!shoulson


DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them.


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