Administrivia - Please Read

Steve Avery ((no email))
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:54:06 +1100

Hi all,
I don't post administrative things to the list that often, so
please, when you see one, give it a read.
A lot of people have been asking if I can send them list mail
from times when they are disconnected from the list (due to listproc
problems, or problems at their end). The answer is no, it's just too
hard. So far this month, there has been over 640k of mail through the
list, and wading through that looking for particular dates is just too
time consuming. I'm afraid the archives will have to do.
Second, there is a lot more traffic on the list now, and so if
email to you bounces, I nuke you after about ten bounces (if I think it
will not go away in a hurry). From one address, I can get twenty bounces
or more in a day, and when I come in monday morning, of the two hundred
odd messages waiting for me, at least half are bounced email
messages. Sorry.
Third, please keep within the scope of the list. Pronounciation
of artist names was stretching it a bit, but venting your spleen over
operating manuals is just way too much. Try alt.flame. Many of the
people on this list have to pay for their connections by volume or time,
and 700k in a month is a lot of email from one list.
And finally, I won't tolerate chain letters to the list. It just
ain't on. Being Australian, I don't have any first ammendment rights,
and a large percentage of the others on the list don't
either. Similarly, I don't want a free subscription to magazines, or to
make money fast. Anyone propagating such material will be summarily
removed from the list - no warnings. This list is to discuss alternative
photographic processes, not political debate.

cheers
-steve