Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:22:51 -0600
From: Hans Ehrbar <ehrbar-AT-marx.econ.utah.edu>
Subject: To All Communists on the List


>>>>> Jj Plant asked:


Jj> In the event of the marxism list ceasing to operate and somebody
Jj> being so noble as to try to create something like it, would they
Jj> have access to a recent list of participants on the marxism list
Jj> in order to inform them ?

The list of subscribers of marxism and marxism-digest is publicly
available by the who command.  I run this command several times a day,
also to keep track of subscription numbers, and keep the output.
(Numbers have been heading up).  If the marxism list were ever to be
discontinued against their will, I can send everyone in the list a
message telling them which new email address to use (an alternative to
marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu) to continue the discussion.
It will take me 2 minutes to set this up, everything is prepared. I am
even making sure that the handfull of subscribers to both marxism and
marxism-digest only get one message and not two.  If someone with a
unix system and emacs wants to have my emacs-lisp routines how to do
this I am willing to share it with them, so that not only I have this
ability.  It is not magic, it is simply a program which converts the
output of the who commands into a long .forward file.  Once a mailing
list on the internet has been established, it cannot easily be destroyed
again.  I propose that you let the paranoia about spoon rest and
continue the substantive discussion.

Hans Ehrbar.



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