[258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do I change my subscription?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry J. Blunk)
Tue Aug 15 11:54:22 1995
To: Elise Gerich <epg@merit.edu>
cc: rs@digex.net, patrick@oes.amdahl.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 1995 08:33:23 EDT."
<199508151233.IAA15427@home.merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:47:45 -0400
From: "Larry J. Blunk" <ljb@merit.edu>
The nanog list is not under smartlist yet. The reason that it
doesn't expand is because it's got a bogus address in it.
Trying 35.1.1.42...
[merit.edu]
550 techs-175... User unknown
Expand fails
> patrick and rob,
> we have been changing to smart list and it appears that its not living
> up to its name. we will look into this problem, and hopefully will resolve
> the registrations problems that you list.
>
> sorry for the inconvenience.
> --elise
>
> >Robert E. Seastrom writes:
> >
> >
> > You have my deepest sympathies. I've been trying for over a year via messa
>ges
> > to postmaster@merit.edu and others, to get rs@tiny.sprintlink.net taken off
>
> > the nanog list (I left Sprint last July). I get mail as rs@digex.net
> > directly, and I get mail forwarded to me via Sprint, which means that I get
>
> > two copies of everything that comes along.
> >
> > Problem is, the folks at Merit consistently deny that rs@tiny.sprintlink.ne
>t
> > is on the list, though if you telnet to merit.edu's smtp port and EXPN the
> > list, you see rs@tiny.sprintlink.net there, plain as day.
> >
> > Well, you used to be able to. Now if you telnet to merit.edu port 25 and s
>ay
> > "expn nanog", the expn will eventually time out.
> >
> > This situation wouldn't be so bad if I could have an ongoing dialog with th
>e
> > Merit folks until we got things straightened out, but the standard MO seems
> to
> > be to ignore the mail for three weeks to a month before sending back a clai
>m
> > that I'm not on the list and never have been. Then when I respond to that
> > message, it goes in the bit bucket. I went through three iterations of thi
>s,
> > and then gave up and wrote an incoming mail action to simply delete all
> > duplicate messages in my nanog mailbox. It's simpler.
> >
> > Since all other mailing lists I used to subscribe to have propagated to
> > rs@digex.net and NANOG mail is the only mail to me that routinely traverses
>
> > Sprint, it crossed my mind to ask Sprint to point all mail for rs@tiny to
> > nanog@merit.edu, but that seemed a little mean-spirited. :)
> >
> > ---Rob
> >
> >
> >
> > > I've tried nanog-request@merit.edu, it's no a valid address, and
> > > I've tried majordomo@merit.edu, ditto. I need to change my
> > > subscription to point to my new address.
> > >
> > > In case anyone's reading this that can do it, I subscribed to this list
> > > as either:
> > >
> > > patrick@amdahl.com
> > > patrick@oes.amdahl.com
> > > or pjh70@eng.amdahl.com
> > >
> > > Starting Monday, my address will be:
> > >
> > > patrick@verity.com
> > >
> > > Thanks, and we return you to regularly scheduled business;)
> > >
> > > Patrick
> >
> >
>
