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``` Some administrative notes.

Many people ask me, "how do you ever get the time to run the Red Rock Eater?" These people seem to believe that it takes me hours a day to run the list, and sometimes they seem to imply that I must be shirking my real job. The fact is, RRE takes minutes a day to run. Why? Because Mike Corrigan does most of the technical stuff for me -- and because I get much of what I send to RRE from RRE subscribers. Many other people have told me, "I didn't send you such-and-such because you seem so well connected that I assumed you already had it". The fact is, most of my "connections" are RRE subscribers.

Therefore, I invite all RRE subscribers to send me occasional items that might be good for the list. I realize that this is tricky, given that the final criterion is whether I find the item interesting in my guts. But if you come across something that you think deserves wide circulation and is not copyrighted, please consider sending it along. (All wire service reports are copyrighted, by the way. All messages contributed to Internet discussion groups are automatically copyrighted by their authors, but it's easy enough to ask them for permission to forward the message to others.)

I'm particularly hoping to get more technical and industry analyses of the Internet and related technologies, more material on human rights, and more announcements and documents relating to technology politics in countries outside of North America. But anything that you find once-a- year interesting is probably worth sending along, particularly if you think it will help expand other's horizons.

On a different topic, I'm fairly happy with the "tag" that now begins most RRE messages. It has reduced the number of misdirected replies to items I forward to the list, and it has reduced but not eliminated the troubles associated with the otherwise excellent Eudora's evil "redirect" command. It has not, though, reduced the number of people who ask me to take them off the list without any suggestion that they've tried doing it themselves. It's now my policy simply to delete such messages.

I hope you're enjoying RRE. I won't tell you what the weather is like in San Diego today.

Phil ```

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