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Re: Overlapping lists

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Tue May 16 16:27:04 1995

From: Wolfgang Roeckelein <wolfgang@wi.whu-koblenz.de>
Date: Tue, 16 May 95 18:12:16 +0200
To: "S. Alexander Jacobson" <alex@virtual.office.com>
Cc: e-payment@ccbellcore.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu,
        www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

>I am on all three of theses lists.
>
>	e-payment@ccbellcore.com, 

>	www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, 

>	www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com

Me, too.
>
>Everything posted to any of these lists seems to be cross posted to the 

>others.    The result is that I get three of every post to any of these. 

>
>Is there a reason for three separate completely overlapped lists on the 

>same topic?  Can we merge them into one list?
>
>If not, can someone enunciate some clear principles for differentiating 

>what should be on each list?

I second this. We need either one list or a clear distinctions, end esp. no  
crossposting!! It is really annoying, esp. because these lists have different  
lags, so I don't receive all three copies at once, but often with a lot of  
other mails in between.

  Wolfgang Roeckelein
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