[1431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Welcome to nanog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST))
Tue Jan 16 15:12:21 1996
From: Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST) <nanog@dune.silkroad.com>
To: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:04:05 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199601161737.JAA10205@dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US> from "Owen DeLong" at Jan 16, 96 09:37:41 am
Owen kindly explains:
> The command below is the result of someone sending a similar subscribe
> command which subscribed the nanog list to itself, causing the welcome
> message to be sent to the entire list. Majordomo apparently accepts
> lists of people to subscribe or treats everything after the mailing
> list name as part of the name subscribing. Either way, the effect is
> the same.
>
> > unsubscribe nanog capprove gators subscribe nanog russ@ism.net
Thanks you. Your first sentence is really cool, BTW.
What we might need is a really robust, easy to configure, solid, fast,
simple to administer new (maybe commercial) e-mailing list manager.
(nothing against B.C.'s perl hack majordomo, and the other listserver
written in C.)
My guess is, whomever comes up the the next-generation list manager
utility will save us all a bunch of hassles and make every ISP's job
just a 'little bit' easier.
BTW, that is one of the more amusing errors I see in a long time:
unsubscribe nanog capprove gatores subscribe nanog russ@ism.net ....
Makes me want to sponsor the "Majordomo Error of the Year Contest";
who knows what humorous babble we might provoke the major' to say.
Sorry for the divergence from the 'norm'.
Regards,
Tim
