Very soon we're moving off Majordomo to a better list-serv (Lyris). Just
trying to work out archives, both legacy and moving forward, including
searchability (which we all love and adore)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Broughton
> Sent: July 31, 2001 1:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: List service?
>
>
> OK. All is not right with the state of the union here.
>
> It has been over five years since I had to setup and administer a
> listserv but I am almost positive that if an email was sent to a given
> list member explicitly on the To: line then the message was not
> duplicated due to his existence as a group member of the group entered
> on the CC: line.
>
> Today I got four copies of the message that Swerve posted in response to
> mine. I can see getting two if the list service can't discern that my
> email address from the To: line is also a member of the group but
> getting four of them is a little bit much.
>
> Now I think my old environment was a Solaris 2.5 configuration but I
> have trouble believing that current versions of Linux (assuming that's
> the OpenSRS platform of choice for such tasks) and their associated list
> serv software have less functionality than the old majordomo stuff.
>
> I know... it doesn't kill me to delete the extraneous messages but I'm
> wondering why it would be the case at all.
>
> Jack
>
> PS. I'm sure there was a joke there with list service vs. lip service
> but spicy thai food for lunch seems to have fried any humour initiatives
> temporarily. :)
