On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Smiley or not, that isn't our problem.  Consider the geographical scope
> of this list.  Allowing one posting per event even could wind up flooding
> the list with announcement messages, each one of which is irrelevant to
> 95%+ of the list.  Three each just makes it worse.

The solution here I think is to have `local' lists for various
geographical areas. There are a couple of lists (not run from the
NetBSD server) for New York and Boston areas for example.

cjs
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