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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1282