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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2001 11:02:38 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: The true source

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >Your suggestion of which list should carry
> >what type of message is well-intentioned
> >but is "management-friendly" rather than
> >"user-friendly". In this particular situation
> >I prefer "user-friendly".
>
> Depends on who your definition of user-friendly.
> There are still quite a few folks out there that
> are easily overwhelmed by duplicate posts

This calls for a vote. Everybody who is overwhelmed by duplicate posts
please say so. And please respond in triplicate.

> or a mail list with any message volume.

Maybe they should switch to a low-volume newsgroup. Like os2.advocacy.
:)))

> Then there are our foreign friends who
> pay by the minute for connect time.

Lemme figure this out (where's my slide rule), okay, a 3,000-character
text message with parity and stop bits comes to 30,000 bits, and for an
extra minute of download time (is that a penny?) would come to (umm,
lessee that's log 3 minus log 6) 500 bits per second. Okay, you're
right, if they can't afford to upgrade that 1200 baud modem they're
using then we probably shouldn't be increasing their traffic.

- Peter

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