Re: Journal of World-Systems Research (for instance)

I "second" kpm's suggestion. If what you feel you must communicate needs
to be put in "attachment" form, it's too much.
I recall the "list-master" request (last year) that we all try to limit
the length and frequency of individual communications.
jak 

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"A man who works with his hands is a laborer;
a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman;
but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart
is an artist" Louis Nizer (1902-1994)

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Judi A. Kessler
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
University of California, San Diego
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 kpmoseley@juno.com wrote:

> Dear friends,
>       Perhaps my machine grinds and malingers more than most, but I do 
>find
> that email messages that come as attachments -- especially attachments
> leading to the web -- take up extra, and sometimes inordinate, amounts of
> time to open and read. Would like to request that (a) we use
> copy-and-paste instead, where feasible; or (b) append a short description
> of  the contents of the attachment, so one might make an informed
> decision about opening it or not.
>       In ecological perspective... think of the time spent opening 
>attachments
> multiplied by the number of members of this and other lists...and the
> time that electric lines and cables are occupied as a result.... All JUNO
> transactions, by the way, occur off-line, except for actual
> transmissions. Much more restful!
>       Many thanks for considering this,
>       kpm 
>