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Subject: 
Re: automatically appended taglines
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:09:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
I don't think people are adding it voluntarily.

Yeah, I understand that now. I thought everyone was actually putting it in
their own SIG files because the website was so good. (It *is* a good web site,
but after a while I was starting to wonder if it was some kind of mass hypnosis
phenomenon :-)

[...] I never bothered to filter it out before, because people
hadn't complained about it...  But yeah, it's definitely excessive.

I wasn't actually complaining, I was just asking: "why is everybody using this
tagline?" I don't know if you should delete it completely ... it could be that
Russell Nelson (who appears to be the administrator of the list) wants people
to know that the messages are coming from his list.

[...] I'll go add it to the anti-spam list now.  Sorry for not doing
it earlier...

Oops, sounds like I'm too late. Oh well, I guess it's not too bad an idea...

- Robert Munafo                           http://www.mrob.com/
  LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13



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  automatically appended taglines
 
(...) I don't think people are adding it voluntarily. It seems to have appeared out of the blue on December 28, 1998, and is being appended to every message originating from the lego-robotics@crynwr.com mailing list (which is gatewayed with the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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