Re: Farewell to UT's vectorlist

Thanks Joe and Paul! I appreciate your attempts to make EVERYONE happy.
While I did not find the experience of hashing out this issue enjoyable, I
found it extremely disappointing that some people stooped to slinging mud
and/or attacking instead of discussing the issue.

PS Maybe we should make blood pressure cuffs a mandatory accessory when
subscribing to the new list. Then we could disable the e-mail send button
unless the senders BP was below a certain level. :-)

Paul_Labuda@Dell.com@lists.cc.utexas.edu on 01/12/2000 10:27:00 AM

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Subject: Farewell to UT's vectorlist

> I'm terribly sorry that everybody's been so ruffled over this recent
> policy spat. Since Joe bowed out, and Neil and company have started a
new
> vectorlist, I'm going to shut this one down in a day or so. It's been
> nice managing the list when everybody's been civil, but I don't want to
> anger any more people over such a trivial matter. Neil, if you could
post
> instructions on how folks can move over to vectorlist and rasterlist at
> your server, I'd appreciate it.
>
> I have promised in the past that I would not distribute the mailing list
> for vectorlist *ever*, so you'll all have to resubscribe at synthcom.
I'm
> sorry about the inconvenience, but I am very sensitive to distributing
> e-mail lists because of the problems we have with spam these days. I'm
> not accusing anybody on vectorlist of selling the list; it's more the
> principal of the thing.
>
> I will be signing on to the "new" vectorlist once I see how to do so.
> It's been an honor to serve you. Have fun with commerce on the "next
> generation."
>
> I'd suggest that anybody who's keeping archives of vectorlist contact me
> immediately if you need some more time to back up the messages. I'm not
> sure if UT will hang on to the archives once the list is deleted.
>
> - Paul Labuda
Received on Wed Jan 12 10:13:50 2000