[60] in mathematical software users group
Re: mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu Sep 24 10:44:20 1992
To: Weiguang Huang <huang@deakin.OZ.AU>
Cc: msug@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 24 Sep 92 11:59:16 +1000.
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 10:43:39 EDT
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>I think the math mailing list should be a place to
>disccuse any interest about math.
I think my recent posting to the mailing list on the topic answers this
question. Discussion is valid and encouraged... repeated monthly postings
of the same advertising hype is not valid.
Another thing to consider is that discussions usually constitute more than
one person being involved in a dialog. Your continual SymbMath ads were
initiated entirely by you, and involved no active dialog with list members.
Forwarding copies of "testimonial" conversations between you and other
people in the past really doesn't constitute dialog. The only dialog
that resulted was in the form of complaints communicated to me and/or the
list by other subscribers. When I get complaints, I have little choice but
to evaluate them and act upon them.
>Dear R.M. Pinchback,
>
>Would you please do not send your email to Postmaster@deakin.oz.au ? It is
>a private mailing list.
>
>Thank you.
If you could provide me with the email address for the director of the
computing facility at your site, I would be happy to use that email
address instead. "postmaster@site" is the traditional place to send
notifications about mail routing problems or alleged communications
facility abuses. If this is not the case for your site, then by all
means communicate the appropriate address to me. I suspect that the
computing staff at Stanford would be have been equally interested in
such information.
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Reid M. Pinchback
Faculty Liaison
Academic Computing Services, MIT
