Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!Damian.Cugley From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: comp.text.tex.info-tex? (Re: TeX mailing list) Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 17:02:48 GMT References: <667854274.0.CVL@VAX01.AMS.COM> <9103070149.AA22212@enel.enel.ucalgary.ca> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 25 In-reply-to: sepa@UNCANET.BITNET's message of 7 Mar 91 01:49:56 GMT We have just had dozens of non-TeX notes mainly from the Info-TeX mailing list -- either "UNSUB LOSER", "SUB LOSER" or "Please add J. Random Loser to the TUG mailing list". All this junk is polluting comp.text.tex which was already doing badly enough on its own. PLEASE stop it! Either -- don't post to Info-TeX unless your message actually is INFOrmation about TeX, or -- stop forwarding info-TeX to comp.text.tex. Isn't there an info-tex-request address? If not, why not? If so, why does NOONE know about it? (You could prepend a message to every item forwarded to the mailing list...) Also: PLEASE use a descriptive subject line, and PLEASE include "LaTeX" if you are using LaTeX, which is very different from TeX proper, and PLEASE include the name of a particular system when you are talking about a particular system. //- Damian Cugley ---------------------------------------------------\ || Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 11 Keble Rd, Oxford, UK || || pdc@prg.ox.ac.uk or pdc@uk.ac.ox.prg in UK "Be nice to people" || \-------------------------------------------------------------------//