Re: www.dieoff.org/page110.htm

B. Diamond (mailto:bdiamond@athens.net)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:57:17 -0800

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Date:         Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:57:17 -0800
From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@athens.net>
Subject:      Re: www.dieoff.org/page110.htm
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU

Jay Hanson wrote:

> At 07:46 PM 9/29/97 +0200, Ray Cole wrote:
>
> >I vote keep it off the listserv. The developing areas I am interested in
> >can't afford to download this stuff and I hope they forgive me for this
> >response.
>
> I am curious Ray, what kind of stuff can they afford to download?

Given that the vast majority of posts to this list are calls for papers and/or announcements for (expensive) international conferences, just what exactly do these folks get from this listserv? There is of course the VITA -News report, but then again this is always a large document that must be very expensive to download. So what is the point?