Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 16:25:29 -0600 (CST)
From: "Alan Spector" <spector@calumet.purdue.edu>
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Subject: REVS & the CAFE

To REVS and REVS-CAFE members:

Recently, Steven Leineweber wrote to me asking about the lack of e-mail
messages on REVS. I was puzzled by that also. I know that the novelty wears
off of many of these networks, that many people want to mainly focus their
time on real people and real journals, rather than virtual chatting, but
REVS membership is still over 400, and with all the events going on,
especially in West and Central Asia and in Africa, one might have thought
that there would be more postings. He sent me a listing of the messages
that went through REVS-CAFE. I never saw most of them. I finally
realized that a number of people are sending their messages to REVS-CAFE
rather than REVS.
So here's an explanation of how to MAXIMIZE your audience:

If someone posts to REVS-CAFE, it ONLY goes to the members of REVS-CAFE,
(several dozen) rather than the whole REVS list (over 400).  If someone
posts to REVS, it also automatically goes to the REVS-CAFE list as well as
to me.  If I approve it (I approve almost everything....), then it also
goes out to the REVS list as a whole.  So for maximum audience, send your
note to REVS, rather than REVS CAFE. To receive the maximum number of
messages, subscribe to REVS-CAFE. If you'd prefer to have me moderate
(slightly) to screen out messages that don't fit in with REVS focus,
then subscribe to REVS. But whichever you subscribe to, send your messages
to REVS@csf.colorado.edu.

Thanks,

Alan Spector
REVS Manager/Editor

Incidentally, one of my students just got sent to Bosnia for 9 months. I
don't think it's all over.......