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> >At 08:09 PM 4/28/72 -0500, Randy Bryan wrote: >> >>Please Please Please!!! > >[...49 Kbytes of quoted material trimmed...] > >We need to avoid this sort of posting to the list... > >Many thanks to Karl and Norm for the effort they have put in to list >maintenance. When the system is complete it would be useful to know what >the s*b*s*c*r*i***t*i*o*n procedure is. [Note that if you use the U-word >in the body of the mail it gets bounced - this one did first time (even though I mangled it) >so there is a regex of some sort!] Obviously it should be as >automatic as possible to relieve them of unnecessary work. Will lapsed >s*bs and bad addresses simply wither away or does human action >need to be taken? It's also a good time for K/N to decide: > (a) whether a human name - listMaintainer - should appear at the foot of >the list (or alternatively an alias). This should only be for technical >matters, not content. > (b) which one/both deals with h2h mail about the list *mechanics*. I would >expect that there would be relatively little need to discuss this >communally unless new developments are sought. Examples would be: > - listMaintainer asking the list for comments about a technical question > - a general discussion about new ideas for how XML-DEV could operate. >[There have been several worthwhile ideas suggested during the recent weeks >and they are still very much worth pursuing. > >For newcomers, note that this list is NOT technologically moderated and - >hopefully - postings appear unedited and as soon as possible. It is a great >credit that there have been no unacceptable postings in over 20000 >messages. Please do NOT ask K/N to deal with *content* moderatorial issues >- the only device we use is listmembers postings, primarily - but not >exclusively - from myself. No one has ever been forcibly uns*b'ed > >Finally to remind members that they should avoid unnecessary quoting. This >increases the volume of traffic considerably - the post I am replying to >was 50 Kb (I think) - multiply this by 2000 list members to achieve 100 >Mbytes of unnecessary traffic. My guess is that untrimmed messages probably >represent this sort of wasted bandwidth every month. > >I suggest that we do not discuss these issues on the list but use private >mail if there is a useful contribution. > > P. > *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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