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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING THE CHAT LIST AT GNAT.COM FOR GNAT DISCUSSIONS
Date: 1996/07/20
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references: <dewar.837525997@schonberg> <ws9zq4zq0gs.fsf@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu>
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Date: 1996-07-20T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.837562404@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

>This reminds me of an old story about recruiting in one of the world wars.
>There were big signs up on the wall showing how to fill out the enlistment
>forms, which showed JOHN DOE written in on the name lines, and sure enough
>nearly 15% of the forms handed in said JOHN DOE for the name :-)

Actually, Robert, this happened quite a bit with gnatlist. The syntax
for a _listproc_ subscription request is

  subscribe list-name your-first-name your-last-name

A number of subscribers (not 15%, but at least half a dozen) wrote

  subscribe gnatlist your-first-name your-last-name

instead of plugging in their real names.
>
>Anyway, sorry about that error, thanks Laurent for catching it!
>
By the way - now that chat is up and running at gnat.com, I am trying to
close down gnatlist, which was always intended as a temporary list
until ACT was ready to operate one. If you are a gnatlist subscriber,
please unsubscribe and subscribe to the new list. I will, after a
couple more weeks, wave my wand and cause gnatlist to evaporate.

This reminds me to change the mailing list info in the ez2load README.:-)

Mike Feldman