Message-ID: <199701092038.WAA01909@linux.lisse.na> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:38:15 +0200 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: amen To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Well, looks like it's time for a broadside :-)-O
- ---------- >From: kerry miller <mailto:astingsh@KSU.EDU>
>To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
>Subject: Re: amen
>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:09:58 -0600
>
>In order to facilitate mail sorting, many lists now distribute posts
>automatically with a [DEVEL] type prefix. Perhaps it would be even more
>use, and surely not too difficult to hack, if for this list the brackets
>enclosed a figure representing the cost of the associated byte-load in some
>typical high-rate burdened area.
> (We could even have fund drives!)
>
>kerry
What really irritates me, and to no extent, is that I in particular have been complaining about this nonsense for years and of course have never been taken seriously. That may be due to the fact that I actually live in a developing country and until only recently had to pay by volume. Now when some wannabes (or was that Wandemberg or who cares or whatever?) get bothered by 20 messages per day which for them seems too difficult to delete (but then they probably use Power PCs with the hottest mail programs since sliced bread which can filter even most complicated settings) they start whining about this.
Ah well, as they say: "This is Africa!"
el
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