Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:34:16 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How I Spent my Summer Vaca^W^W Weekend
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 03:20 PM 3/5/02 -0500, keith wrote:
>> Perhaps instead of going ahead and filling up our little chat
>> circle, Keith, you might want to consider starting a web zine for
>> those who would be interested in reading these essays and life
>> descriptions uninterrupted by other things, as we usually keep
>> the stuff on the circle fairly short.
>
>I'm hoping Sam will snag a copy for the Journal.  Which he is free to
>do for any and all messages here, except those where the sender asks
>that it not be put in the Journal, which no messages have yet.

Yes, I'll put it in, remind me near the end of the month.

>This is WSFA's list, not my list, so what do all of you think?  Should
>I block all messages of more than a certain size?  If so, what size?
>Mine was 16k.  The longest message before today was 11k.

Since we'res just sending ASCII, length isn't really a factor.  And it's
easy to delate mail.  I vote no length limits.

>Should I automatically snip all bottom-posted quoted text?  In some
>cases this may make it harder to tell what someone is replying to.
>But it would cut down the text volume (but not the message volume)
>of this list by a factor of three.

Again, length isn't really a problem.  I'd leave bottom posting alone.