Re: How to handle personal email ?

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William R Ward (hermit@BayView.COM)
31 Jan 1998 12:11:51 -0800

Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net> writes:
> A passive reference document won't reach the population whose
> behavior you want to modify. This is one area where email lists
> have an edge. When someone enters an email list, they get a
> welcome message which gives them an orientation to the scope and
> mores of the group. There is no such active behavior by News to
> detect the entry of newbies and force some propaganda on them.
> It is up to the newbies to self-identify and search out the
> newbie briefings.

Some newsgroups have a robot that scans for posts from newbies and
e-mails them some propaganda. This even works for non-moderated
groups. For moderated groups the moderator has the ability to mail
the user some information if they send inappropriate postings.

--Bill.

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