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``` Some administrative details.

RRE now has over 1000 subscribers in 34 countries. I am very aware, though, that most RRE messages have been focused on the United States. Everyone is invited to pass along any items concerning other countries that might be of wide interest. I can't promise to include them, but I will certainly have a look.

As a periodic reminder, if you wish to cancel your subscription to RRE, send a message that looks like:

To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: unsubscribe

Occasionally someone takes offense at something I send out over RRE and sends me a nasty message before ending their subscription. I find these messages hurtful and wish I didn't have to receive them.

Among those who do appreciate RRE, many people appear to think that I spend twenty hours a week running it. This is definitely not true. Running RRE takes less than an hour a week. I haven't got time to spend any more than this. And most of it, in fact, is spent dealing with subscribers' addresses that no longer work -- and lately I've stopped worrying much about these, since the "bounce-mail" messages about them are so uninformative. One reason why running RRE is easy is that Mike Corrigan maintains the software and does the technical things, including periodically adding even more labor-saving features. But I want to emphasize how easy it is to run something like RRE, and I wish that more people would do such things.

I have gotten a couple of complaints from people who subscribe to both RRE and to Gleason Sackman's net-happenings list. Net-happenings, for those who are unaware of it, is like RRE except that it has a much higher bandwidth (at least ten messages a day) and broader coverage, including commercial activities. Net-happenings is usually the single largest source of items for RRE, with the rest coming from perhaps a dozen other lists, as well as items that people send me individually. How many people are inconvenienced in this way? Some have suggested that I create two versions of RRE, one that includes net-happenings messages and one that doesn't, but this would be more complicated than I want to worry about. Another proposal was to just put the messages from net-happenings in the archive and advertise their availability in periodic messages. I used to do this, but it was a hassle and many people complained at the extra work it required to fetch the messages. A third suggestion was to move RRE to World-Wide Web, but only a fraction of the world can run WWW clients, and I want to be helpful to the whole world. So until the technology improves or I get a better idea, things are going to stay the way they are. I hope you like it.

Phil

PS Gleason Sackman is sackman@plains.nodak.edu. ```

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