RE: starship-design: keep old copy.

[T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)]

>Majordomo will, if I remember correctly, allow you to request a list
>of currently subscribed members.
>
>You send a message with "who starship-design" in the body to
>majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu

I think we should turn this option off, just to be save. I've been on other
mailing lists and usually they don't allow that option anymore because it
often has been misused (adverticements?)

If some of us (the main members) are interested in that list, then Steve
could easely substract that list and sent it to us.

People that write to the list reguarly, will probably use their own name (or
at least some alias that doesn't change often)
We could also set up some rules that people have to obey when they are
writing to the list, one of those rules could be that they would need to use
their name.
Other rules could be to no create havoc or not to flame.
Usually those rules are in the subscription letter: <copied from freeng-list>



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Regarding a newsgroup, why not have two mailing lists, one weekly and one
continuous list? One could make both lists so that all letter are directly
published on the web (or with one or two days in delay, to sift out some
weird stuff if needed).


Timothy