This is an argument suggesting you rethink this.

Sometimes I read my Vanagon mail every hour.

Other times, I read it only after *two months*!! when I am really busy. I
have had occaision to go as long as three months without reading a single
post but letting them pile up in my Vanagon mailbox in Eudora and then
reading them on summer vacation.

If I were required to respond within 7 days, then I could be out of luck.
This would leave me with weeks or months of stuff missing from my personal
archive and drive me nuts wondering how to get the messages back from
somebody into Eudora format.

I say that if you want to implement this task, that you give us six to
eight weeks to respond to your query, and that you only do it quarterly.
Better yet, consider not doing it at all. One of the great things about the
Vanagon list is that you can neglect it. If you really had to pay attention
to it all the time for fear of getting dropped, those of us with real jobs
and real lives, families, etc. would be under excessive pressure, and we
might lose some good people.

At 06:34 PM 4/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I've been getting approximately 500 letters a day, many of them bounces from
>this list.  ListServ cleans up many of these, but misses some.  Others (esp.
>from Compuserve) are formatted such that I cannot detect the bouncing user.
>
>In order to further automate this task, I've set the Vanagon list to send a
>letter to all users monthly.  Users will be required to reply to this letter
>within seven days, or they will be automatically removed from the list.
>
>I hope that this doesn't cause any problems for anyone.  If it does, please
>send me email and we'll discuss it, or call me at 415.284.6972.
>
>Coyote
>
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Derek Drew                           New York, NY & Washington DC
ConsumerSearch
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