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- From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: Re: announcing the alt.cabal
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 23:46:52 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- References: <VIXIE.93Jan24142358@cognition.pa.dec.com> <VIXIE.93Jan26114338@cognition.pa.dec.com>
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- In article <VIXIE.93Jan26114338@cognition.pa.dec.com>, vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
- |> > Will you still send your control messages to people who may not follow them?
- |>
- |> absolutely not. the political effects of letting an alt.* control message
- |> go to someone who didn't ask you for it are extremely unpleasant. i have
- |> no wish to enter into pissing contests with people like this "becker" i keep
- |> hearing about; it's far better for everyone if i only allow control messages
- |> to go to members of the alt.cabal.
-
- No, no.
-
- He didn't ask whether or not you'll send the message to people who didn't *ask
- for them*. He asked whether or not you'll send them to people who *may not
- follow them*.
-
- In other words, can someone subscribe to the alt.cabal but choose to apply its
- control messages at his discretion? Or are you requiring that all members of
- the alt.cabal obey all (authentic) alt.cabal control messagse?
-
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- Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu
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