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Subject: [M]: MAPUG administrative
From: JohnLX200@aol.com
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Oct 26 05:31:47 1997


Hello out there in MAPUG land.
I've almost completed my personal and office moves, but have been very busy.


I expect everything to keep working just fine, but
if MAPUG should have problems in the next few days,
do not be alarmed: it will just be until I can catch up with
the MAPUG admin. chores at worst.

While I'm here, just a comment on Wayne's posting:


In a message dated 97-10-25 23:32:52 EDT, Wayne wrote:

> I posted a note on list servers
> about a week ago, and got some responses about why some of these
> groups are better off as list servers, but from my perspective a
> newsgroup is far better. I can access them selectively and I
> don't have to put up with unwanted messages. That far outweighs
> getting advertising and porn messages. Those are way down the
> list in terms of being difficult to deal with.
>

Between having to use the delete key for Spam on the newsgroup, the majority
of list members don't like having to deal with faking their addresses in
posting to a newsgroup. Those who don't do so are at extreme risk of being
bombarded with Spam to their personal email address in addition to the
newsgroup.

AND.....come on, admit it: you don't hit the delete key on all of those
Spams, do you? ;-)

>
> Amazingly through all this nonsense, I have been steadily receiving
> messages from the MAPUG group. That's been great.

I do recall having to "hit the delete key" on several occasions due to you,
but I'm fairly tolerant of non-fatal warnings about undeliverable mail,
timeouts, etc.
Even "permanent fatal errors" for a while from names I recognize in a good
way.

Maybe this is due to the fact that there are far worse ISPs out there,
especially in Italy, for reasons unknown to me. In the most severe cases,
I'll unsubscribe them from mapug and subscribe them to mapug-digest so I get
the warnings and errors less often.

John Hopper
JohnLX200@aol.com
MAPUG administrator