1993-10-08 - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm)

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: e5ce65991905993c0e66754c578c8927f63586b20a237026d42a643fe260e864
Message ID: <9310080359.AA25676@snark.lehman.com>
Reply To: <9310080056.AA27566@dink.foretune.co.jp>
UTC Datetime: 1993-10-08 04:05:37 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Oct 93 21:05:37 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 93 21:05:37 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm)
In-Reply-To: <9310080056.AA27566@dink.foretune.co.jp>
Message-ID: <9310080359.AA25676@snark.lehman.com>
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Robert J Woodhead says:
> 
> I've only been monitoring the list for a couple of days, but already
> it is clear to me that the traffic is _way_ too high to manage as a
> mailing list.

All the excess traffic is metatraffic about how bad the traffic is.
Quit talking about the excess traffic and the problem will end.

Perry
Who gets 300-500 email messages a day and still gets his work done,
and who doesn't complain lightly about volume.

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• 1993-10-08 (Thu, 7 Oct 93 17:59:20 PDT) - The death of the list as we know it (tm) - Robert J Woodhead <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
  • 1993-10-08 (Thu, 7 Oct 93 19:25:35 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
    • 1993-10-08 (Thu, 7 Oct 93 19:49:22 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - ferguson@icm1.icp.net (Paul Ferguson x2044)
  • 1993-10-08 (Thu, 7 Oct 93 21:05:37 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
  • 1993-10-08 (Fri, 8 Oct 93 10:11:10 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - Patrick O’Callaghan <poc@usb.ve>
    • 1993-10-08 (Fri, 8 Oct 93 10:45:53 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
      • 1993-10-09 (Fri, 8 Oct 93 17:59:29 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - “Robert J. Woodhead” <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
        • 1993-10-09 (Fri, 8 Oct 93 18:25:48 PDT) - The death of the list as we know it (tm) - Eric Blossom <eb@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
        • 1993-10-09 (Fri, 8 Oct 93 19:19:30 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
        • 1993-10-09 (Fri, 8 Oct 93 19:35:48 PDT) - Re: The death of the list as we know it (tm) - ferguson@icm1.icp.net (Paul Ferguson x2044)