I am in the queue here too.
> On Apr 11, 2026, at 2:06 PM, kent williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still manually approve every 313 list subscriber. > > Not all - but many - keep clicking the subscribe button until I get > around to approving them. > > It's more funny than annoying. Unfortunately for me, to tell someone > how that works, they need to be subscribed to the list. > > When Dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was working on a Computer Science > degree, we had to type in programs on an IBM 3270 terminal. You > submitted your program to be compiled and run into a queue, and waited > around until they printed out your program and its results on fan-fold > paper. > > When programs were due, the queue was long and it took forever for > your program to be run and printed out. Naive students would think "It > didn't run!" and resubmit their program to run. Multiple times. > > The cubbies in the computer lab where they put the printouts would > overflow with piles of useless program runs. > > A weird side effect was that there were students that got through the > Comp Sci program by fishing other people's assignments out of the > recycling box, re-typing them and then turning them in as their own > work.
