Subject: Change in aiw-general usage

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 09:44:32 EDT

Sender: "Charles H. Brotman (919-254-7204)" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Change in aiw-general usage

The aiw-general mail exploder sends messages to a large number of people.
Many of these people are interested in receiving only information
about upcoming events, registration, minutes, etc.  Communicating this
information has always been the main purpose of aiw-genral.  There have
been a number of complaints about excessive mail which deals with topics
which are much more specific than this and about spurious "not here"
messages and the like.

In order to avoid these problems we have created a new forum called
"aiw-forum" for discussion of AIW topics which are not related to
conference administration and are not included in one of the other
AIW mail exploder topics.  To minimize the impact on those people
who aren't interested in participating in these types of discussions
you will need to subscribe to this new forum.

Additionally, the aiw-general mail exploder will now be monitored,
meaning that each note to the exploder will be reviewed before being sent
out to the exploder's mailing list.  In this way, we will be able to
filter out "not-here" messages, and help submitters to redirect
mis-directed appends to the appropriate exploder.  This should mean that
you will no longer need to see "please register me" appends or other
spurious notes from aiw-general.

If you have noticed the elimination of such spurious messages, it is
because we've been testing the monitor system on aiw-general for the
last couple of weeks.  Now it's time to make it official.

So to summarize:
    1) aiw-general will be filtered, and used mostly to disseminate
       conference information.
    2) aiw-forum will become the new home for discussion of miscellaneous
       AIW topics.  You will need to subscribe to this forum
       to receive these notes.
    3) All other mail exploders remain unchanged, only aiw-general
       is on the monitoring system.

It is our intention that this should improve and streamline our
communications.  We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may
cause during the transition period.

Discussion should continue on aiw-forum.  If you have an interest
in following and/or contributing to aiw-forum, please
subscribe by sending a note with NO SUBJECT LINE containing the
words:
        subscribe aiw-forum <your name goes here>
to:
        [email-masked]

Best Regards,
Chuck
AIW Chair