At 09:05 AM 4/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I have had a couple of distress messages from you regarding the sudden flood
>of error messages received over the last couple of days. Be it known that I
>get many such messages on a daily basis - such is the joy of being a list
>owner. Normally error messages such as this are sent only to list owners so
>that Wayne and I, your two friendly owners of mathedcc, receive and deal
>with this stuff. Somehow the system generating these messages (SPJC - St.
>Petersburg Junior College) has addressed them to the LIST instead of the
>LIST OWNER. So you get a glimpse of what we deal with on a regular basis.
>Please don't bail out because of an occasional gitch of this nature. Be
>assured that we (the list owners and the system administrators at the
>mathematics archives) try to resolve these problems as soon as possible
>after they occur! Generating an extra flood of complaints only adds to the
>confusion.
>
>Another point: of course the list owners do not send advertising messages
>to the list! we do what we can to prevent them. In spite of the safeguards
>that are in place to prevent commercialism from creeping into the list, it
>is inevitable that some such messages will get through. Simply deleting
>them instead of being goaded into a state of righteous indignation and
>causing further disruption in the smooth functioning of the list by sending
>messages which state the obvious would be a far more efficient way of
>dealing with the problem.
>
>Point made!
>
>Brian
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Sharon Smith
Augusta Technical Institute
3116 Deans Bridge Road
Augusta, GA 30906
Math Instructor
Isa 43:1-3
email ssmith@augusta.tec.ga.us
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