Messages from Beyond the Zero

[Spencer Thiel]

Good policy.

Bad policy is allowing attachments to come to the list.  Did anyone else
get some little globe thingy from davemarc?


At 8:46 AM -0700 6/15/99, Murthy Yenamandra wrote:


>Hello folks,
>
>There have been some questions recently about messages on this list from
>persons not on it. This is by way of an explanation.
>
>Posts from non-subscribers (and some subscribers that the list software
>thinks are not) come to the list-owner (currently yours truly) for
>approval. I normally approve posts (containing announcements, weblinks
>etc) that I consider relevant to the list (and given its history, even
>if occassionally tangential), but not the subsequent discussions/flames
>resulting from them (unless list subscribers CC their discussions to the
>list) - relevance being in the eye of the list-owner, of course.
>
>I've found this over time to be a nice compromise between approving
>everything and nothing. If you don't want to see off-topic threads on
>the list, then please keep the subsequent discussions off-list.
>
>If anyone disagrees with this policy, they're welcome to suggest
>alternative ideas.
>
>Murthy
>
>--
>Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
>Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
>"Every heart/to love will come/but like a refugee" - Leonard Cohen


_/_/_/_/_/_/
-Spencer T.