At 14:15 11/14/00 -0600, Jorge A Romero MD wrote:
I would like to offer once again the suggestion that very abbreviated instructions be appended AUTOMATICALLY to each message echoed by the listserve. Many newslists use this method of keeping the subscribers informed of the instructions to change subscription settings.
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With due respect to Jorge, as a person who believes that this type of activity is
an individual responsibility, I would take issue with his suggestion. Primarily
for the reason that it would add approximately 600,000,000 bits of data to the
daily message stream of the PIE network given the content of the suggested
message to be sent. If my calculations are correct this would amount to about
5 hours of transmission time daily. (Transmission time is considered that
of the individuals receiving the message data @ 33KB, not the server groups.)
As a 'young fella' who remembers some of the slogans used during WWII, I would
submit one used during the gasoline rationing period......"Is this trip really
necessary?"
Best wishes......Jack
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