My Departure, Moderation, and "Ownership of the List"
E. Allen Smith
EALLENSMITH at ocelot.Rutgers.EDU
Wed Feb 5 14:16:45 PST 1997
From: IN%"jer+ at andrew.cmu.edu" "Jeremiah A Blatz" 5-FEB-1997 06:54:01.96
>On the choke points note, mailing lists are better than usenet because
>legendary AOLers with there 5 free hours of fame and their ilk usually
>don't figure out how to pester mailing lists. Being on a mailing list
>usually requires a commitment, that is enough of a barrier for many of
>the usenet underirables.
Umm... try reading list-managers for a while on AOL cluelessness
for mailing lists. The Usenet AOL undesirables also do things like reading
AOL's ever-so-helpful directory of mailing lists (some list managers have
asked to have their list taken _off_ of this directory).
-Allen
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