From: Joe Thomas <jthomas@access.digex.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 94 10:08:09 PDT
To: Doug Cutrell <doug@OpenMind.com>
Subject: META: A proposal for handling "forwards"
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On Sat, 9 Jul 1994, Doug Cutrell wrote:

> How about setting up a second e-mail list on majordomo, called
> "cypherpunks-fwds" or "cypherxtra" or some such thing.  I, for one, am
> quite appreciative of receiving such posts as Jim Choate's forwards... but
> my disk space is abundant and my connection is permanent and not metered.
> I can understand why many people would prefer not to receive such things.

This seems like an appropriate time to give a plug to the Extropians list 
software.  If I remember correctly, there was a ::nosend command that 
people could use when forwarding long messages.  The ::nosend command
would cause the list processor to file the whole message in the archives, 
and only send out a pointer to it (a title in the index?).  Those who 
wanted to retrieve the message could send a command to the list 
processor, requesting it.

I don't know if Majordomo has anything similar...

Joe