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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Roy McNeill
date: 1994-06-08 19:56:28
subject: great schemes

On (31 May 94) Paul Edwards wrote to All...



 PE> Hello All!

 PE>

 PE> I'm thinking of doing a couple of things.  One is to poll Dave at

 PE> around 4pm as well as the morning shift.  This will improve mail going

 PE> outside, and will also mean that there's no great thrill about an

 PE> early morning poll.  You can poll shortly after 4pm and still be on

 PE> the "bleeding edge".



Should even out the rush hours. Fine.



 PE> The other thing I am thinking of doing is making a list of all my

 PE> points available for FREQ.  This would include your point number, your

 PE> name, and your suburb/state.  The reason for this is quite complex,

 PE> and is to do with automated point-number generation.  Basically I can

 PE> tell people to send me netmail if they want to become a point, and

 PE> poll for a list of FREQers to see if they got assigned point numbers

 PE> already.  However, if anyone objects to having their name/suburb/point

 PE> number on a list, I will not do that. BFN.



I was going to object, because I enjoy making my location a

guessing game. But being on a freq file isn't quite like being on a

public billboard, and my suburb name by itself doesn't give away my

latitude. No probs then.



Cheers



--- PPoint 1.80


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