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From: ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 12:14:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 12:14:41 1986
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> 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.

Your proposal is not going to help any.  The problem is not that the
-REQUEST address is inappropriately named, it's a class of ignorant
net citizens who don't realize that you send requests to be added
or dropped to a different address than what you use to post to the list.
Chaning to ADD-INFO-FOOBAR will not help these morons and only serve
to really screw up the knowledgable users who know about the -REQUEST
convention.