administrivia (was Re: Policy Statement)

[EDWARD H. LYBARGER]

Hi, Derrick,

I'm glad this is you behind all this!!!  I can think of dozens of folks I'm
glad it isn't!

I'll be happy to contribute here as long as it doesn't get too foamy.  Fair
enough?

Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
To: west-penn-railways at dementia.org <west-penn-railways at dementia.org>;
johnstown-traction at dementia.org <johnstown-traction at dementia.org>;
pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:45 AM
Subject: administrivia (was Re: Policy Statement)


>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jim Holland wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> Could you please provide me with the policy statements for your
Pittsburgh, West Penn, and Johnstown
>> mail lists?
>
>Hahaha. Basically, right now the machine running the mailing lists lives
>in my employer's machine room (but it is my hardware); As long as nothing
>weird starts going on the upset them, I don't much care. At some point, I
>will again have high speed network service at home, and the lists will be
>served from the machine on my desk there.
>
>We can shape these lists into anything the readers want, within that
>constraint and that I have a job (and for the moment classes while I
>finish my degree, and home renovations ongoing for 3 years to finish) and
>hence can't sink all my time here. There's a not-small, not-large limit on
>the sizes of posts; We can adjust that as the readers see fit; Or I can
>create yet another list for binaries.
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>> I think it would be nice for these three properties to be joined into one
list.  It would make it easy
>> to unsubscribe / resubscribe at vacations times but more importantly,
those who are primarily PRCo fans are
>> usually extremely interested in both West Penn and Johnstown  --  it just
seems so natural for them to be
>> together.  West Penn and PRCo operated freight together; Valley line
trains once operated through to
>> Pittsburgh, and the interurbans of PRCo were just a quick 6 miles from
West Penn in Brownsville.  Johnstown was
>> just over the hill from PRCo but actively admired by PRCo, and probably
West Penn fans.
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>If that's what people want, we can do that. Should also be possible to
>create a list which causes people subscribed to it to get messages to all
>3 (PRCo, WPRys, JTCo) lists, but the lists still be subscribable (and
>necessarily be postable) individually.
>
>I wouldn't call the 60-ish mile jaunt from Johnstown to Trafford (which
>would be about the closest point on Pittsburgh Railways to Johnstown, and
>also happens to be where I live) "just over the hill", but I hear you...
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