X-Message-Number: 1282
Subject: CRYONICS Re: Long Messages
From:  (Edgar W. Swank)
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 13:23:56 PDT

This is in response to CRYOMSG's 1265, from Charles Platt, and
1269 from Brian Wowk.  I suppose these were indirectly directed at
me since I just uploaded several long messages including ACS minutes
and "reprints" from the ACS/CI magazine, the Immortalist.
 
I sympathize with Charles and other users of Comp-U-Serve. CIS is
not an economical way to monitor a mailing list. I would suggest
you all find other ways to access Internet E-Mail and leave CIS for
stock quotes and other database searches not available elsewhere.
 
For a list of Unix systems, most of which have Internet E-Mail access,
many of which are free, and virtually all of which are cheaper than
CIS, send an Internet message:
 
send nixpub long short
 
to
 
Widener Archive Server <>
 
This list is not exhaustive. It does not include many small UUCP
systems such as this one (Spectrox). You can find lists of local BBS's
in free "pulp" computer magazines often distributed at libraries and
computer stores.
 
Platt's limit of 10K/day seems reasonable to me.  If I'm given 10K of
credit for each day I don't post anything, I think I'm well within the
limit. Or did you mean "use it or lose it" each day?
 
In the future, I will try to avoid uploading as much in a single day
as I just did. I uploaded it all at once because I got it all at once
from the local ACS office.
 
As for Brian Wowk's comment, I would not like to see a restriction
of material appearing in other cryonics publications. I don't
subscribe to Alcor's magazine Cryonics but I'm glad to have access to
informative articles reprinted here.  I assume many of you who don't
receive the ACS/CI magazine The Immortalist would like to see
informative articles from there.
 
I've heard ACS criticized here for NOT publishing enough detail about
our suspensions. It seems we can't please everyone no matter what we
do. I think the articles by Dick Marsh and Jerry White concerning
their feelings about close relatives recently suspended are worth wide
distribution.

--
 (Edgar W. Swank)
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005  Silicon Valley, Ca


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