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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
July 27, 2000 05:24
Subject:
Re: [ben_tilly@hotmail.com: Glad I am not on bootstrap]
Message ID:
20000727132013.B547@pobox.com
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:07:23AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:58:15PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > You a assuming that everyone who will ever post to p6p will know to add
> > the keyword and also what keywords there are. This simply will never be true.
> 
> This is true.  We have to remember all the "d00dz, 1 n33d my w3bb0ard
> werking!!!!11!!" posts.  j/k
> 
> > If someone tries to send to the list directly, they should get a reply
> > telling them of the different lists that exist and tell them to resend
> > to the appropriate list.
> 
> Alternatively, all posts to p6p which do not contain the magical
> header tags would simply be considerd "general" or "other" and live
> solely on p6p (or be copied to a perl6-other list).

That runs the risk of Emails not being seen by all the people who
need to. Not everyone is going to want to subscribe to this
list so they will not see these mails.

I would prefer to direct people to the right place to send thier post
so they get the best response they can.

Graham.

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