Subj : Observations of the current ELIST.RPT
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Jan 09 2022 03:39 pm


 On 2022 Jan 09 14:28:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> nope... did you not read the bottom of page 8 of that publication???

 ml>> [spoon feeding mode]

 ml>>      When  the  "contact"  is  listed in parentheses it means that the
 ml>>      conference is NOT currently  active  but  the  person  listed  is
 ml>>      interested in STARTING a conference on the topic.

 ml>> [/spoon feeding mode]

 AA> If that still stands today, shouldn't that rule be present in
 AA> the current elist how-to instead of an old .nws file from the
 AA> 80s that many people wouldn't come across?

i'm guessing you have, by now, read my post to wilfred explaining that it was provided as a valid example of listing non-distributed echotags in the echolist ;)

)\/(ark

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