Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!NRCCAD.NRC.CA!NUM208JN From: NUM208JN@NRCCAD.NRC.CA (JOHN NASH) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: And in the End... Message-ID: <910206090105.703@NRCCAD.NRC.CA> Date: 6 Feb 91 14:01:05 GMT Sender: kristoff@genbank.bio.net Lines: 31 In a recent message, dan davison writes: --- ......... The problems caused there (probably because of Behind Its Time NET/LISTSERV protocols) are NOT worth any nebulous benefits of "automatic confusion" -- oh, sorry -- "automatic subscription". Yes, Internet mailers will occasionally go into loops -- this weekend was not bad at all, as far as mailer blowups go -- but as many have noted here over the past couple of years, the "simplifying" via IRLEARN has generally been more consistently problematic, with little *visible* benefit. The monthly "updates" proposed by Steve Clark would have perhaps changed this perception. BIOSCI maintainers, it's NOT the occasional mess-up...it's the consistent ones that cause the perception, rightly or wrongly, of major problems. --- Well, at least we didn't get dozens of complaints landing back on our laps as bounced messages. At the moment the C programmers' list (C-L@UIUCVMD) has gone completely nuts, and even the complaints are bouncing (38 this morning and still counting!). I suppose the moral of this post is to suggest that if you do get bounced mail, please don't complain about it to the originating LIST, as it adds to the confusion. Just patiently do a "dir" and block delete the messages. cheers, John Nash.