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Re: Whats happening with this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Fri Oct 25 19:38:06 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:20:01 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:25:54 -0400
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>I have did not recieve any redhat mail for the last few days.
>I thought the mail server went down again so I waited.
>Now I resubscribed and everything is working again.
>
>Why is it possible for someone else to unsubscribe you???
>I can go to my work account and subscribe, then go through my home account
>and unsubscribed my work account.
Well, there is no way to be sure via email that folks aren't who
they say they are.
The problem most likely is *not* that someone unsubscribed you, it's
that the network between us and you (but not *our* network) was down
for some period of time long enough that bounces were generated on mail
to you. Smartlist will kindly eject you from the system without
bothering we nice system administrators (oh, gosh I love Smartlist...every
other listprocessor wants to show you everything it does, which really
blows when you have over 1000 users).
>With the recent problems with the mailing list going down, how do you know
>you've been unsubscribed?
What "recent problems with the mailing list going down"??? We've had
web and FTP troubles, but this is the first I've heard of mailing
list troubles (and I think I usually know... :-).
Seriously, if you don't get mail from the list for a day, it's time
to send a subscription request. It's easy to undo if it were a
mistake, and I don't *think* smartlist will send you two copies if
you subscribe multiple times (from the same address, anyway).
--Donnie
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