[9506] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Advisory Committee E-mail Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Jan 7 00:52:19 1994
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 00:51 EST
From: emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In article <940106212111.20400a9e@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU> you wrote:
: arrive at its destination. That said, there's no reason why the Advisory
: Committee members ought not to solicit myriad views electronically. I
: don't see any reason, however, why participation in this advisory committee
: (despite its very special nature with regard to networking and E-mail)
: should require that they surrender their electronic foyer to the mob
: attempting to camp on their virtual doorstep... :-)
Modern mail readers have filtering and mailbox sorting capabilities
which allow the person inflicted with a mob's worth of e-mail to
sort the mob's mail into one mailbox and the inner circle's mail
into another. Widespread installation of these sorts of mailers
would be a considerable improvement in the National Information
Infrastructure.
--Ed
