From alan@curry.epilogue.com Wed Feb 14 18:45:13 1996 Return-Path: Received: from curry.epilogue.com by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA18706; Wed, 14 Feb 96 18:45:13 EST Received: (from alan@localhost) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA27698; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:45:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:45:04 -0500 Message-Id: <14Feb1996.174115.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> From: Alan Bawden Sender: Cube-Lovers-Request@ai.mit.edu To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Welcome to the future of the Internet As those of you who have been reading Cube-Lovers for the last few months are well aware, we have been suffering through (almost) weekly advertisements sent by some nutcase trying to sell magazines. In the past, I have been able to defeat unwanted advertising on Cube-Lovers by simply having a chat with the advertiser (or his postmaster). But the magazine guy is determined to send a weekly copy of his advertisement to every mailing list in the world, despite all objections -- there's really no way to shut him off short of some form of mailing list moderation. So we're forced to make Cube-Lovers a moderated mailing list. Starting with this message, every message sent to Cube-Lovers will be screened before it gets distributed to the rest of you. For the moment, some of the steps in the screening process are manual, so there may be a delay before a message you submit gets out to the rest of the list. That's the price we pay to keep Cube-Lovers from becoming a conduit that delivers more advertising than content.