Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 21:38:27 -0600
Subject:  draft info sheet


Getting closer to finished?  
I do hear that some people have some desire to try to spell
everything out, but I think there is no way to anticipate everything
or decide anything in detail in advance.  This is a shot at a general
description of the list that I want to support.  I have incorporated
several comments, and am willing to hear more suggestions for what we
_do_ want.

I'll be offlist til monday, most likely.  Because of various
tech-problems, I've seen nothing on M2 since Jon's brief post this
afternoon, so I'm not sure what's up, but I hope you're enjoying
yourselves.  Spoon is having another disk space shortage because of
some non-spoon stuff in Virginia, and during that time, nothing can
be archived, although it still gets passed on through to you [on the
'straight' list] like usual.  So please save your good stuff from
this afternoon, so I can have a chance at it.  Otherwise, I'll never
see it at all.  I should be able to receive mail normally, ah,
regularly from now forward.

Lisa

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