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Subject: 
Re: L-cad is getting irritating!
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:29:17 GMT
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Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> writes:

I can think of one drawback for moving to lugnet -
you must have some sort of web access to subscribe to lugnet, while with
l-cad you can subscribe with only an e-mail address and information on
how to subscribe emailed to you by someone else.

Hey man, it's 1999, not 1994!  :)

Is there anyone left on the planet who has e-mail access but who doesn't have
web access?

Besides, even if there was someone without web access, they could always send a
subscription request via e-mail to news@lugnet.com...  It wouldn't be too
difficult to handle a rare special case getting someone set up by hand.

--Todd



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  Re: L-cad is getting irritating!
 
(...) Yes. Not to be pedantic, but there are gobs(1) of people that don't have home PCs, but who have email access from behind a firewall at work. In many cases they don't have web access. This may well be because they have access via some weird (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: L-cad is getting irritating!
 
(...) I have been following all this, and the thread in lugnet.admin.general, and would like to chime in a little. Overall, I support this whole idea. LCad as a mailing list has its share of annoyances to me. Perhaps a dedicated group here would be (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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I can think of one drawback for moving to lugnet - you must have some sort of web access to subscribe to lugnet, while with l-cad you can subscribe with only an e-mail address and information on how to subscribe emailed to you by someone else. (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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