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Re: Attachments on Nav-L list
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2005 Sep 6, 15:13 -0700
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2005 Sep 6, 15:13 -0700
STUFF HAPPENS, THINGS GET MISSED. Because Nav-L are FREE guests on the webkahuna.com server, no attachments. " Dan Hogan dhhogan1@earthlink.net Navigation-L: http://www.offsoundings.info/navl.html" > > And Dan Hogan replied: > "I can only answer WHY DIDN'T YOU READ the Navigation-L Welcome message??? > > Dan, I read it carefully. I noticed the 'no attachments' line when I first > signed up in late 2003 and thought 'hmm, a little old-fashioned, but > harmless'. Then just three weeks after I joined, I noticed an attachment added to a > list message... and a number of others in the following months, nearly all of > them appropriate and relevant. And so I thought, 'aha. an enlightened list > manager who realizes that attachments can be useful and only keeps a no > attachment policy on paper'. Those previous attachments [from such list members as > Fred Hebard, Joel Jacobs, and Richard Langley] were not 'slammed' as violations > of list policy, and they did not draw weird accusations of "contempt" and > "subversion". So THAT is why I asked you why you (and George, for that matter) > didn't complain about attachments last year. Simple as that. > > -FER > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
