Aucbvax.4033 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Sep 24 23:00:53 1981 Re: UNIX-Wizards List >From ptb@MITRE-BEDFORD Thu Sep 24 12:37:46 1981 1) That would take an awful lot of time on someone's part to look through all the mail and sort out what parts/messages are "relavent"; 2) It would considerably slow down response time on a discussion for a human being have to manually pass each messages through; 3) Mistakes may be made in the interpretation of what the person is saying if the area is highly technical; and 4) What is relavent to one person may not be to another. The solution I propose is to simply split up the Unix - Wizzards mailing list into a number of smaller special-purpose lists. Peter Baldwin ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.