From: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:56:45 -0800 (PST)
To: jer+@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: My Departure, Moderation, and "Ownership of the List"
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From:	IN%"jer+@andrew.cmu.edu"  "Jeremiah A Blatz"  5-FEB-1997 06:54:01.96

>On the choke points note, mailing lists are better than usenet because
>legendary AOLers with there 5 free hours of fame and their ilk usually
>don't figure out how to pester mailing lists. Being on a mailing list
>usually requires a commitment, that is enough of a barrier for many of
>the usenet underirables.

	Umm... try reading list-managers for a while on AOL cluelessness
for mailing lists. The Usenet AOL undesirables also do things like reading
AOL's ever-so-helpful directory of mailing lists (some list managers have
asked to have their list taken _off_ of this directory).
	-Allen