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From: pierce@SRC.DEC.COM (Benjamin Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Broken mailing list
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Date: 13 Mar 88 19:35:00 GMT
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Following Marc Brown's lead, I'll begin by apologizing to everyone
that shouldn't have to read this and continue by requesting that my
name (bcp@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu) be removed from the info-postscript
distribution.

As far as I can tell, this mailing list is now dysfunctional.  Messages
to info-postscript-request are either lost or ignored; every day my
inbox is flooded with useless messages from people asking to be added
or removed from the distribution and exchanging technical information
in which I have no interest.  

It appears that info-postscript is presently used for two imcompatible
sorts of communication:
    1) exchange of techniques and information between practicing
       Postscript programmers;
    2) administrative and logistical queries from new users of Postscript.
The second category is important, but in this case it seems to have 
squeezed out the first.  

If Postscript programming is important enough to have a forum for
discussion on the net, then perhaps it deserves TWO.  Could there
be, for example, a moderated newsgroup for experienced programmers
and an open forum for other postscript users?

        Benjamin Pierce