The future of the list?

[Joe Varo]

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

[...]
> What is the solution? Well it would help if people were more scared of
> posting. Yes, another feature of the good old bad old days was that
> anyone who posted irrelevant rubbish or wasted bandwidth used to get
> told quickly, cruelly and with all due sarcasm that they were wasting
> the time of other list subscribers. These days there just is not
> enough napalm to go round.
[...]

Kind of fighting fire with fire, eh? Hadn't even considered that. But
might not this be a perfect time to utter that old saw: "Beware what you
wish for -- you might just get it."

Joe