reaction
There was no threat; it just seemed that people were wasting
each other's time in meta-discussions, and I think Mark was
wasting his time and mine, and I am worried about whether we
will complete Dialnet on time.  However, if you like
meta-discussions consider this.  The DEC message about the
2020 demonstration was a nuisance.  At SU-AI, the main nuisance
was that 19 copies of it, consisting mostly of distribution list,
took up scarce disk space.  Nevertheless, the announcement was
appropriate, and, while the audience was somewhat random, it is
probably no more so than the mailing list that brought me a paper
copy of the same announcement.  Query: leaving questions peculiar
to ARPANET aside, how should advertising be handled in electronic
mail systems?