verification of posting

Below is a copy of the email I received as a consequence of posting to the
Home Brew Digest.

Of course, the HBD is a digest, not a mail list ... but it occurs to me,
it is much harder to interfere with the operation of a Digest. The Digest
comes out once a day, it has ( usually ) a table of contents at the top,
and, if one received email telling where in the queue one's message was,
one could verify it by reading the Digest when next issued forth. As well
as discussing it with individuals separately via email, which provides a
redundancy of sorts to this verification process.

Eternal vigiliance and all that. Freedom is not a passive process !!


-- richard


> From homebrew-request@hpfcmi.fc.hp.com Fri Nov 27 18:31:24 1992
> Reply-To: homebrew-request@hpfcmi.fc.hp.com
> Errors-To: homebrew-request@hpfcmi.fc.hp.com
> Subject: Re: A clarificatioon on clarification
> 
> 
> 
> (This message has been generated by a program, and is for your
> information only. No further action is necessary.)
> 
> Your article has been received for publication in the Homebrew
> Digest. There are currently 2 article(s) ahead of yours in
> the queue that will be published first.
> 
> Thanks for your submission and your support of the Digest!
> 
> 
> Rob (program author)
> 
> 
>

> Of course, the HBD is a digest, not a mail list ... but it occurs to me,

Digests also introduce a time-delay.  You can have almost-realtime
discussions with an immediate reflector.  

It is possible to have both.  On many mailing lists (such as future-culture
for example) you can "subscribe realtime" or "subscribe digest".

> comes out once a day, it has ( usually ) a table of contents at the top,

I suggest that even if we don't have a digest, we could still have a
"table of contents" at the end of the day.

> and, if one received email telling where in the queue one's message was,

You would not need a receipt message, you would just check to see if you
message appeared in the index.


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