Bolides as a key word

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At 10:08 PM 4/17/96, Chip Pretzman wrote:
>OK, what you say is fine, but please bear with us who sift through lots and
>lots of messages per day (and some pay by the message).

        I suggest we think about an electronic way through which one can
unsubscribe (perhaps only temporarily) from any discussion containing in
its title the term Bolides (or in general any other key word). This means
that, once you realise that a discussion is going too long about a topic
you are not interested in (and it may cost too much receiving and deleting
messages) you should be able to send a message that unsubscribes you from
that discussion ONLY. Of course, people interested in continuing the
discussion should be kind and put always in the title the key word of the
discussion (in this case Bolibes).

        This may have the (unfortunate) effect of forcing people to be
careful when they take any decision about what the title (subject) of their
message should be. I already see ourselves structuring our languages to fit
more a computer than a human being. At least, for the moment, we have to be
careful about the subject only. You are still free to put in the text
whatever you want.

        I personally would like to see this discussion going on, but I
understand it costs money for those who are not interested in.


        Ali T. Haidar



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