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[David G. Hough at validgh]

I have installed majordomo software to handle mailing lists I administer.
I have converted numeric-interest to run under majordomo.   Please let me
know if you have any problems or have difficulty posting or unsubscribing.
I have consolidated several mailing lists and may have made some mistakes.

Posting, subscribe, and unsubscribe are now handled pretty much automatically.
Possible difficulties you may encounter are usually due to the difference
between uucp-style addressing which my mailer still uses and conventional
internet addressing.   For security, to protect us from the former women of
the Soviet Union, only members are allowed to post, and membership is
determined by comparing the From: address to the mailing list.

Aside:
 comp.arch.arithmetic is a low-volume USENET newsgroup with fairly high
 signal-to-noise ratio... for USENET.   Its content overlaps numeric-interest
 pretty well.   I could set up a script to copy comp.arch.arithmetic postings
 to numeric-interest.    Volume has been running around 5 postings (10KB)
 per day.   I would be willing to moderate that volume of postings to avoid
 spam.   Let me know if this would be useful or problematic for you.
 I could set up separate mailing lists with and without the newsgroup stuff.
 I don't have any interest in
 going the other way (numeric-interest->comp.arch.arithmetic automatically).



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Subject: Wuppertal meeting
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Subject: complex bakeoff
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Subject: hardware support for interval arithmetic
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