[1038] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Whats happening with this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Fri Oct 25 21:50:02 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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All,
I was just pawing through my nightly few hundred billion email messages
and this one caught my eye.
It seems rather odd that people don't have more trouble with email lists
getting messed up, bogus people unsubscribing cool people, etc.,
The fact that email lists like this one work at all is evidence that people
are basically good natured.
It is almost no trouble at all to unsubscribe a whole mess of people from a
list, or to smoke a listserv with too much incomming/outgoing mail.
One or two unsubscribes here or there is perhaps the most insidious thing
someone can do because the list administrator probably wouldn't catch
it. A whole mess of unsubscribes might be catchable, if the admin knows
how to set things up.
In short, count your blessings, and be good. :)
The net has built-in and darn near instant Karma lurking around every
corner. I try and help out and do good in order to manifest
good karma, or rather, preemptive self-defense.
Have you upset anyone lately ? Forget to tell them how good they are ?
I set-off one guy once because I nailed him for really really bad
spelling. We had a big blowout that was incredibly hilarious. In the
end we both won, he turned out to be handicapped, but after getting
nailed he started using a spell checker and looking a billion times more
professional...
I can see how things might have gotton ugly, however, and I've done my
best to avoid generating any animosity.
:)
Are any of you out there very good at the administration of listservs, and
SENDMAIL in the face of negative activities ? Do the defaults of RedHat
leave something to be desired for which there may already be answers ?
I'm becomming an administrator and I will be facing these issues
directly in about 3 weeks. Any additional heads-up anyone might have on
this would be greatly appreciated.
THX
-AEF
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, David L. Martin 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.
>
> With the recent problems with the mailing list going down, how do you know
> you've been unsubscribed?
>
> David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
> R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
> PGP: DB CE B1 D4 51 46 C1 E0 68 7C 61 09 21 03 80 96
>
> malpractice, n.:
> The reason surgeons wear masks.
>
>
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