Dear folks,
can I second this "motion" (and emotion)? The repetition that has flooded my account since I subscribed to lbo yesterday is ridiculous, and Mark is right--McDonaldization has killed many a list that could/should have stayed more focused.
Jamie
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
> Dear one and all
> May I please INSIST that we do not frustrate the intentions of
> the founders of the new lists by promiscuously copying our
> postings to all of them. How can lists develop their own atmosphere if
> they are all like Macdonalds, the same everywhere? And some
> of us have slow modems and big bills.
>
> Assume our colleagues and co-subscribers have the wit to subscribe
> to what they want and not to what they don't want, without forcing
> them to get everything anyway. No spamming, please, comrades. Cease.
> Desist.
>
> Mark
>