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[Dan Robinson]

On 2000-11-30 hiaw...@efn.org said to dan...@efn.org
>roy-g-biv said:
>}<> After all this time, it has finally been revealed that the
>problem was }sending the same message (not multiply addressed and
>not the same message }to the same place more than once)
>individually to many, many different }newsgroups, which apparently
>is a heinous act, even if the message was }on-topic and not an
>advert get-rich-quick scheme.

It seems rather arbitrary. Maybe the rule should be about sending
to lists where a post is generally off the subject. I wonder if
this could have potentially applied to my pro-Nader tag line.

>Have you attempted to negotiate via e-mail?

I'd like to be hearing something from more than one voice of
EFN's side of it also.

>I have never found EFN and the
>people there to be unreasonable -- quite the reverse, in fact.

I wouldn't go so far as to say "quite the reverse", but maybe
that was mostly due to staff shortages.

The ideal I see would be a system where each CCed message is
coded with the same random code number, and my ISP would delete
messages from different sources with the same number. Also a
keyword system would search many forums for messages that begin
with the equivalent of "meta tags" on web pages. It would get
messages with subjects I like, delete some I don't like and
suggest some "maybes".

Dan Robinson dan...@efn.org
Eugene OR 97401 www.efn.org/~danrob/

Nobody's perfect; everybody's approaching optimum.