A proposal for handling "forwards"

How about setting up a second e-mail list on majordomo, called
"cypherpunks-fwds" or "cypherxtra" or some such thing.  I, for one, am
quite appreciative of receiving such posts as Jim Choate's forwards... but
my disk space is abundant and my connection is permanent and not metered.
I can understand why many people would prefer not to receive such things.
This way people can choose whether they want to receive these types of
longish, possible repeats (including the EFF announcements) or not.

I guess I can think of reasons this might not be such a good idea (the new
list might be completely empty, or it might be flooded with garbage, etc).
But there it is...

Doug

                       __   __   __                             __
Doug Cutrell          /  ) /__) /_  /\  /    /| /|   /  /\  /  /  )
doug@OpenMind.com     \_/ /    (_  /  \/    / |/ |  /  /  \/  /__/
===================================================================

On Sat, 9 Jul 1994, Doug Cutrell wrote:

> How about setting up a second e-mail list on majordomo, called
> "cypherpunks-fwds" or "cypherxtra" or some such thing.  I, for one, am
> quite appreciative of receiving such posts as Jim Choate's forwards... but
> my disk space is abundant and my connection is permanent and not metered.
> I can understand why many people would prefer not to receive such things.

This seems like an appropriate time to give a plug to the Extropians list 
software.  If I remember correctly, there was a ::nosend command that 
people could use when forwarding long messages.  The ::nosend command
would cause the list processor to file the whole message in the archives, 
and only send out a pointer to it (a title in the index?).  Those who 
wanted to retrieve the message could send a command to the list 
processor, requesting it.

I don't know if Majordomo has anything similar...

Joe