Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!xanth!mcnc!rti!talos!kjones From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: more on the "Commonly Axed Questions" posting (was Re: Truncating ...) Message-ID: <467@talos.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 89 14:11:59 GMT References: <1057@novavax.UUCP> <3377@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA Lines: 12 jeffrey templon writes: > I belonged to a Macintosh mailing list that was like this once. > This is why I think the idea that someone (I don't remember who) had a few > days ago is good - namely fix it so that the first message a new subscriber > to comp.emacs sees is some kind of general info. All the responses I have received about this idea have been favorable, so I've started collecting and organizing data. I hope to pare the bulk down to an approachable document (or two) by month's end. And yes, I know: "On tomorrow's feast we can starve today." :-) kyle jones ...!uunet!talos!kjones