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Re: Wow. That's lotsa volume.

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From: Merlin Mann
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 23:54
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What he said.

I'm interested in keeping up.  If there's a way to get a *little* less mail
each day, I'd love to stay on.

Keepon Postin'.

8-)

>
> Merlin writes:
>
> >Hey sorry to ditch so fast, but I better desubscribe.
> >
> >You are high-volume folk and, frankly, I'm a little drowned for a casual
> >user---great stuff though!
>
> Volume has recently sky-rocketed through my mailbox as well. To the
> point where unsubscribing has crossed my mind too. And yet, I'd like to
> stay subscribed, if only to register my interest in collecting postcards.
>
> Would it be too much to ask posters, to seriously consider if the whole
> list needs to hear something. I swear much of what I've flicked through
> this morning would have served very well as a private email between the
> relevant parties ... Just consider that anything you post to the list
> ends up in a stack of mailboxes ... mine included. One article is no
> problem, nor two, nor three. But I'm sure it's approaching twenty
> a day recently!
>
> Consider it,
>
> Bernd.
> --
> Bernd Wechner, Research Engineer
 (bernd@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au)
> BHP Sheet and Coil Products Division, Research and Technology Centre
> Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.               (Disclaimer: I claim
 dis)
>


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Merlin Mann, (merlin@freenet.scri.fsu.edu)
Tallahassee, Florida
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