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DEAR DEAR JOHN E GOINGS

Posted by Jaz on 1998-03-27

I would kill you (slowly) but since you are new to
the guild and this is probably the first mailing list
you are on, I will explain it to you, again.

1) DO ****NEVER**** SEND *****ANY**** FILES THROUGH
THE LIST! Your file is converted into dozens of
pages full of scrap like this:

AQAeaN4Hmv//AACJRv5qAGgCf+gT+It2/gv2dSv/NmIA/zbeAP823ABW6MYo
OwbcAHUGOxbeAHQKah/os/YeUOgA+OiRFesH/zZgAOgOKWoAaAB/6NL3xwZC
BAAAi8ZeycMAyPQBAGg0A+iy+x5QaiDoffYeUI2GDP4WUJo8EAAAg8QM/zbw
B42GDP4WUB5ohABqAJrIDwAAycPILAEAV1aLfgT/dgZXagGa//8AAIvwg

(so this just 30 pages more)

NOBODY who hasn't set his mail mode to ACK or NOACK
or has a tool and the time to put all these pages
together will be able to view your file. Then, there are
around 350 people on the list. If you send 100 KBs of
file data you generate 100 * 2 point something * 350
Kilobytes of Internet mail traffic, that are
70 MEGAbytes! The owner of the listserver this list is
on will hire someone to beat the hell out of me if this
happens more than a few times.

2) If you reply to something, then DON'T QUOTE THE
WHOLE DIGEST but only what your refering to in your
reply.


As I said, I don't send you to exile and won't murder
your children but please try to follow these rules.


Jaz

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