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secretary@lxny.org wrote on 20 Jan 2004 04:38:38 -0500:
> This week there are many events, of various scales and kinds.

> This message is a portmanteau announcement, and contains notices of several
> different events.

[ .... ]

This post was around 630 lines long.  Although it is surely of some
interest to some readers of gnu.emacs.help, it is utterly off-topic here
(containing not one reference to Emacs).

Am I alone in thinking that such massively long announcements are
inappropriate here?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").