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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT
Message-ID: <1950@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 13:51:26 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1950
Posted: Tue Feb  4 13:51:26 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 05:15:48 EST
References: <12179952512.9.MRC@PANDA>
Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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In article <12179952512.9.MRC@PANDA> MRC%PANDA@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA 
	(Mark Crispin) writes:
>     There have been too many "please delete" messages sent to
>this list, from ninnies, twits, and cretins who refuse to read or
>comprehend simple instructions.  
>     To reiterate: Requests to be ADDED TO or DELETED FROM the
>INFO-ATARI list should be sent to:
>	INFO-ATARI-REQUEST@SU-SCORE.ARPA
>Note the "-REQUEST" in the address, kids.  The same convention is
>used in hundreds of other mailing lists.

	The same problem is evident in 
	HUNDREDS OF OTHER MAILING LISTS
too.  If you are not willing to believe that everyone who does this
has just had gotten an account for the first time in their life,
you will be forced to conclude that the convention is VERY BAD
and should be abandoned.  Forgetting to append the word request
is just too easy to do, particularly for those going over a uucp
gate where you have just typed in the name of a dozen intermediate
machines.
	I realize that this is not going to happen in the near future;  
however, those starting new mailling lists may profit from the 
experience of 
	HUNDREDS OF OTHER MAILING LISTS
and abandon the INFO-FOOBAR-REQUEST syntax in favor of something else
like ADD-INFO-FOOBAR and DELETE-INFO-FOOBAR.
	Actually, I used to feel like Mark does, till the day I forgot
to stick the "-REQUEST" onto the end of an address.
-- 
"You're nuts, crazy.  All your dogs don't bark!"
"Yes they do -- Woof!  Woof!"
			-- The Badger
Rick Keir -- right next to the Oyster Tank -- UWisc - Madison
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