From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: how to remove your name...
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.375
Posted: Thu Dec 16 04:06:35 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 12:48:26 1982

>From fylstra.tsca@Sri-Tsc  Tue Dec 14 01:55:43 1982
To: info-cpm@BRL
Via:  Sri-Tsca; 14 Dec 82 19:30-PST
Via:  Sri-Tsc; 15 Dec 82 0:30-EST
Via:  Brl; 15 Dec 82 1:20-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 15 Dec 82 1:52-EST

I suggest the simple expedient of sending an introductory message to each
person at the time the individual joins the list.  This standardized message
would describe...

	- the general topic of the mailing list
	- ARPAnet rules governing commercially-oriented messages
	- a comment on copyright observance (?)
	- the organization of the CPM archives, including how to FTP files
	  and the special structure of binary files
	- some rules of mailing list etiquette (amazing that this should
	  seem to be necessary)
	- an indication of the estimated size of the readership
	- the XXX-REQUEST rule for obtaining administrative services,
	  making particular note that this is the preferred technique
	  for getting off the list.

These boilerplate topics surface on INFO-CPM from time to time, and it seems
best to handle them all at once at intro time.  Periodic rebroadcasts are
not the way to go.

Dave Fylstra