Aucbvax.5803
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!digest-people
Fri Jan 15 02:39:28 1982
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>From Admin.MDP@SU-SCORE Fri Jan 15 02:28:57 1982
   One way we could tell people that digest material is not public
would be first to announce the fact as an administrative note in the
digest and then to mention it whenever introducing a new member to the
list (by sending them a "welcome" note).  This approach is much less
distasteful than that of putting a warning on the label.

   The problem with it is that not all subscribers are added by one
list maintainer.  In fact, many of them get the digests by mechanisms
essentially equivalent to a bulletin board.  This means that a large
fraction of our new readers will never get a welcome note.

   If we regard the above as ineffective, then we want to make the
warning as unobtrusive as possible.  Two possibilities present them-
selves.  The first possibility would be to tuck it away in the header
instead of the banner; for example

       Date: Friday, 15 January 1982
       From: PCP-IV at BAL
       Private: Not for public distribution
       Subject: PCP-IV Digest  V9 #23
       To: PCP-IV at BAL

The second possibility would be to place the warning at the bottom of
the digest instead of the top; it might look like

       ------------------------------

       **************   End of PCP-IV Digest   **************
       *********   (Not For Public Distribution)   **********
       ******************************************************

or perhaps something less ostentatious to the same effect.

   The latter, like the warning in the banner, will break some
undigestifying programs, but probably in a milder and more easily
reparable way.  The former will not break most software, but may not
be as aesthetically acceptable.

                                   Yours very sincerely,

                                                     Mike
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