programs

[Dave_Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU]

Henri Arsenault <arseno at phy.ulaval.ca> writes:

>  There are a lot of long meetings programs with abstracts and so on being
>  transmitted on this network. Would it not be more economical to transmit
>  a short abstract along with instructions on how to ftp the whole
>  document? Almost every day I have to scroll through long documents of
>  marginal interest to me. Is it really necessary to put such long
>  documents so all the subscribers have to read them?

Meeting programs and abstracts are entirely appropriate materials for the
CONNECTIONISTS list.  Not all our subscribers have access to FTP, and most
would consider it an unreasonable inconvenience to have to FTP such things.

My advice to you is to learn how to use your mail-reading program
correctly.  In most mail readers, long messages that don't interest you can
be skipped with a single keystroke.  If you are scrolling through the whole
message in order to get to the next one, go back and read the user's
manual.

Please, let's have no more discussion of this topic on the CONNECTIONSITS
list.  *That* would be a waste of bandwidth.  People who feel they
absolutely have to comment on this can send their remarks to the maintainers:
Connectionists-Request at cs.cmu.edu.

-- Dave Touretzky