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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: info-gcc is not a common carrier
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Date: 31 May 89 18:22:43 GMT
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In article <8905310246.AA00550@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes:
>The GNU mailing lists are not an open forum for all purposes.  We set
>them up to promote free software and that is all they should be used
>for.  Any other advertisements of proprietary software, or activities
>in support of monopolies on software, is also misuse of the list.  We
>certainly would take steps to prevent persistent, deliberate misuse.  

Dammit, I have had it with this political crap on the info-gcc list.
I suggest the following.  If anyone decides that a specific message
which appears on the list is not desired, that he quietly RETURN
said message to the sender instead of adding another message to the
list to further increase the political load on the list.  If a message
on the list is truely undesired by a large number of people then I
presume the thousands of bounced messages filling up the senders mailbox
will make the point.  I am not suggesting any sort of unreasonable harassing
or censorship, simply that unwanted messages be returned to the sender by
the entire population of people who get them and do not want them.

brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp