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- Subject: Re: announcing the alt.cabal
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:07:56 GMT
- References: <VIXIE.93Jan24142358@cognition.pa.dec.com> <VIXIE.93Jan26114338@cognition.pa.dec.com> <1k4ihcINNcv4@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
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- In article <1k4ihcINNcv4@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
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- > 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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- Sheesh! (or Furrfu!) Jonathan! This is the ALT net. When we say, "They're
- Guidelines Not Rules [tm]", we mean it!
-
- (It's a rule that they are "Guidelines", by the way)
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- Nobody (not even you) could force anyone to obey any control message.
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- What where you expecting? Some sort of SPANISH INQUISITION? ;-)
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- I think this "alt.cabal" is a great idea. I think it will save me a lot of
- work.
-
- Terry
-