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From: bzs@pinocchio.encore.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Info-futures
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Date: 9 Jan 89 19:02:14 GMT
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>I have been wondering why there is so much discussion about
>the electoral college, texas and its independence, and capitalism
>on a mailing list that is (I thought) supposed to involved with
>things like why one memory model looks better than another one for
>a given type of architecture, why CD-ROM isn't a good choice for
>certain types of filesystems but excellent for archives, and so on.

Exactly, you've got one loser like jeff daiell and then of course two
or three other people get sucked in and before you know it there's a
several messages per day on some irrelevant topic.

Other than moderating I think the best suggestion is that others send
him (and others) direct e-mail notes indicating their displeasure with
the abuse of the list whenever one shows up. Perhaps the sheer volume
will discourage him or convince him that it's not just one grumpy
mailing list owner who is sick of this stupidity.

It would really be nice to think that someone (particularly someone
who claims to be a libertarian!) would show a little self-restraint
without begging that someone else play Nanny State and force him to
behave (unless his attraction to reduction of govt is the prospect of
being able to obnoxiously annoy anyone he chooses without fear of
reprisal beyond ignoring pleas to stop.)

I hope you don't mind me Cc'ing the list with this reply.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||