Please stop sending "Test" messages to the list

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 6:35 PM 4/2/96, Anonymous wrote:
>Test of remailer at utopia.hacktie.nl

Look, folks, we're seeing more and more of these "test" messages. With
1000+ subscribers, clearly people should not be using the list as a target
for test messages.

And there is no need. Unlike, say, mail-to-newsgroup systems, about which
there may be some doubt as to functioning, the Cypherpunks list is just
another mailing address. Thus, if you can send anonymous mail to
yourself--always a good test target--then you can send it to the
cypherpunks@toad.com!

I just deleted-and-ignored the last several of these "test" messages, but
the time has come to say "Enough."

(This is, naturally, not an enforceable opinion. I appeal to your common
sense to not use the list as a target for test messages.)

--Tim May


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