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[sorry to be late replying to this... I was on a nice beach vacation]
I wrote earlier:
"Hmm. OK. So why didn't you complain about attachments last year? Or did I
just miss that??"
And Dan Hogan replied:
"I can only answer WHY DIDN'T YOU READ the Navigation-L Welcome message???
Dan, I read it carefully. I noticed the 'no attachments' line when I first
signed up in late 2003 and thought 'hmm, a little old-fashioned, but
harmless'. Then just three weeks after I joined, I noticed an attachment added to a
list message... and a number of others in the following months, nearly all of
them appropriate and relevant. And so I thought, 'aha. an enlightened list
manager who realizes that attachments can be useful and only keeps a no
attachment policy on paper'. Those previous attachments [from such list members as
Fred Hebard, Joel Jacobs, and Richard Langley] were not 'slammed' as violations
of list policy, and they did not draw weird accusations of "contempt" and
"subversion". So THAT is why I asked you why you (and George, for that matter)
didn't complain about attachments last year. Simple as that.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
