NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/misc/activism/progress/5868

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From: [e-mail] (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Re: THE OCTOBER SURPRISE -- "The Verdict is Treason": THE VERDICT
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   forwarding mail sent to aml.

   Rich

    ---------------------- Original note follows ---------------------------

   Would it be possible to put the "Z" magazine commercial at the end of the
   message (I dare not suggest leaving it out altogether) so that one doesn't
   have to plow through four pages of intro before getting to the message?

                       Howard

I've put it both at the top and at the bottom. Technically, we're
supposed to put at the top, period, per the agreement with Z. I do
this when I post such for the first time; then we I auto-post a
"series" like this one I often put it at the bottom.

I've trying hard at the moment to convince Z (as well as the Nation,
with whom I've finally started an email dialogue) to get online (and
to get comfortable online in the case of the Nation) -- when they do,
I'll be brave enough to tell them, look, it's not helping you at all
to want to put it at the top -- but until they're personally familiar
with what it's like to use a news-reader, or email, the concept of
the-first-25-lines and their centrality (why I start so many of my
posts with "excerpts" to tease people into interest, when I have the
time to do this), I don' think they'll understand.

Until that point in time, I'll probably continue to use the present
imperfect compromise.

--Harel

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