On Sat, 30 Jan 1993 14:03:12 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>On Sat, 30 Jan 1993 00:18:13 PST Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM> said:
>
>>I for one would like to object that the idea behind LISTSERV, MAILER and
>>like software is network maintenance.
>
>Concretely, what are you objecting to? "Safe= Yes" prevents mailing loops
>which by definition are junk traffic.
 
Oops, I misspoke.  What I meant to say was that I wanted "To object TO the
idea...".  That is, maintenance is NOT the main purpose of LISTSERV as
Eric points out.   Dave
 
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