[1026] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Whats happening with this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L. Martin)
Fri Oct 25 19:59:48 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
To: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610252325.TAA18799@redhat.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Donnie Barnes wrote:
> >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.
About two months ago I subscribed to the list from both my work and my
home. After about a week I unsubscribed from work, it cancelled my
home subscription, but kept my work subscription. It should at least be
this smart.
>
> 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).
I haven't had any problems with other mail, how do I track this down?
>
> >With the recent problems with the mailing list going down, how do you know
> >you've been unsubscribed?
I didn't mean in the last few weeks, I meant in the last few months, but
not often.
>
> 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).
>
No I had that problem also, it will sent you two copies.
David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
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