Fwd: Please reduce chatty posts to Unicode list

From: Paul James Cowie (pjamescowie@ancientneareast.net)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 05:53:25 EDT

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    > From: Paul James Cowie <pjamescowie@ancientneareast.net>
    > Date: Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:28:46 am Europe/London
    > To: Rick McGowan <rick@unicode.org>
    > Subject: Please reduce chatty posts to Unicode list
    >
    > Can we try to keep the (currently) numerous "chit-chat" posts on the
    > Unicode mailing list to an absolute minimum?
    >
    > If I wanted to read this type of submission I would log into a chat
    > room....
    >
    > Surely this type of interaction is best kept to private e-mails
    > between list members?
    >
    > What's more, such messages simply clog up the list archives (and
    > members' inboxes) with (largely) useless submissions and fragmented
    > responses.
    >
    > Just my rant for the morning.....
    >
    > ------------
    >
    > Paul James Cowie
    >
    > London, UK and Sydney, Australia
    >
    > Editor, http://www.ancientneareast.net/
    > Area Supervisor, Tel Rehov Excavations, Israel
    > Committee Member, Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
    >
    > PhD Candidate, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology,
    > Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
    >
    >
    > On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 06:22 am, Rick McGowan wrote:
    >
    >> Curtis Clark,
    >>
    >>> Caviar, 10kg, €FEED
    >>
    >> Heh, heh... Don't you mean:
    >>
    >> Caviar, Akg, €FEED
    >>
    >> ;-)
    >>
    >> Rick
    >>
    >>
    >



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