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``` The level of traffic on the Red Rock Eater will be much lower between now and late June while I finish a book. We'll soon have a February 1995 issue of The Network Observer, but I'm not sure what we'll have after that. I've removed myself from most of the mailing lists that I have used as sources for RRE materials, though I'll continue to send along good things that I get from other sources.

Also, I will not be maintaining the mailing list between now and late June. That is, RRE bouncemail, including messages to rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu that the server cannot handle automatically, will go straight into the bit bucket, starting later this week.

If you wish to end your subscription to RRE, send a message like so:

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

Keep in mind that you can monitor RRE and TNO through the WorldWide Web. My own home page is:

http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/agre.html

And the home page for TNO is:

http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/tno.html

Many kind people have written to express their appreciation for RRE. If you think RRE is a good thing and will miss it while I'm off in my cell writing, here are some activities that I would suggest to fill the time:

(1) Start your own version of RRE. It isn't difficult if you have access to tools for maintaining large mailing lists (e.g., listserv or even perhaps UUCP news).

(2) Become active in Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). You can write them at cpsr@cpsr.org. I think that you can get on-line information automatically from cpsr-info@cpsr.org. Their home page is located at http://cpsr.org/home

(3) Join the crusade against bad bouncemail. If you know more about the technical aspects of e-mail than I do, you can help out by identifying the five worst divergences from the Internet e-mail standards on the part of commercially supported mailers. Make these problems widely known so that the wayward companies are encouraged to mend their ways and rejoin decent Internet society.

(4) Help your favorite local nonprofit organization to get onto the net.

(5) Turn your computer off and take a hike someplace that still has bears.

See you later.

Phil ```

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