Subject: Open or Close the network

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 09:59:01 CDT

Dear netters, we lads-net has opened its posting previliges to everybody
who subcribed our net. To open or not open the net has been a hot debate
among our committee members. There are two sides of the story:

1) To keep the net closed, we need two members to check and repackage the 
incomming messages, but it saves system manager's time and work and computer 
resources, which is essential to sustain the net. The noise is kept at minimum,
the netters are receiving less junk mails, and some complain the delay of their
postings.

2) To keep the net open, then we have freed two members, which is very precious
to us since we do not have enough manpower. While many netters think Mi Mi Sr.
is the leader of this net, they are quite mistaken. Since Mi Mi Sr. has not 
been assigned to any particular monitoring job, he takes the liberty as a free
lancer to fool around. Currently we are sending a mini-survey to the net, that
take one member to do it, and petition drive also takes one member to take care
of the signatures. Since all of us are part time volunteers, everyone has to
concentrate on their full time duty and family obligations. By opening the net,
we save more members to do the other tasks, but more noises are heard over the
net. 

Well, it has been very controvesial. Mi Mi Sr. realized that, while the net was
closed, he jumped up and down to send out lots of junk mails. And Mi Mi is
grateful to all our netters' tolerance towards his behavior.

Anyway, since we are a democratic network, why not drop a line, saying
open the net or close the net, together with your survey to us? If the majority
of our netters are in favor of close the net, we will certainly do this to
serve our netters better. 

Our first priority is your satisfaction.

Regards,

Mi Mi.

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