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- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!RA.MSSTATE.EDU!MAYNOR
- Message-ID: <9301230107.AA10091@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:07:48 CST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: signoff
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > I've had it suggested to me that subscribing to WORDS-L could be comnsidered
- > an abuse of resources because it breaks proper list etiquette by allowing
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ??????????????????????
- As defined by whom?
-
- > use of the list for virtually personal conversation and in the process puts
- > very undue strain on the systems of the subscribers. Supposedly personal
-
- Depends on the systems, doesn't it? It doesn't seem to put undue strain
- on Ra. People with feeble systems should perhaps not subscribe.
-
- > I pass this on as information, and not as a criticism on my part. WORDS-L
-
- I didn't see it as criticism. I saw it as somebody's personal biases about
- what net life "should" be. (The "somebody" refers not to you, but to
- whoever has been telling you things like that.) The UGA listserv manager
- is very well respected in NetDom. If he thought this list was an abuse of
- resources, he wouldn't let it be running through his mainframe.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
-