X-Message-Number: 1276
Date: 06 Oct 1992 12:21:53 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: long postings

I want to strongly agree with Charles Platt's position on having to read
multi-kilobyte postings on Cryonet, especially emotional accounts of
suspensions of relatives &c. Perhaps an Archive called "Eulogies" could be
set up with abstracts of the longer pieces inserted in the regular postings.
Such abstracts should be included by the author at the beginning of the text
so that they can be easily posted separately. ---Mark Voelker

[ It is easy for me to create an archive file accessible via
  "CRYOMSG msgnmbr" email sent to me.  Making that archive file
  accessible to people on the mailing list, however, is done manually;
  I have not written any automated archive filing capability.
  If you want to create an archive file, please begin the text with
  a note that the message is for the archives, not for mailblast to
  the entire mailing list.  Also, do not put "CRYONICS" in the Subject
  line of archive messages or they likely will get mailblasted anyway.
  You probably will, however, want to write a short "CRYONICS" message
  that announces the *availability* of the new archive. - KQB ]

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