Hi folks
Sorry for leaving you alone such a long time - we had a 7.1 to work at,
and I can tell you one: It was a hell of a work for all of us here, but
the product is really cute.
Life has returned to somewhat more normal tempo now, so that I can spend
some more time reading the mailing lists, and answering your requests. At
least at sunday afternoon. ;->
I think that you have noticed that mailing list has moved to
"sympa" lately. This was long overdue, and final kick was that majordomo
just refused to work a week ago- and I have no ambitions to fight with it.
Now, why did I choose sympa instead of majordomo?
Both of them were installed when I came to company, I did not know how
to use any of them, and sympa worked better AS-IS, so I decided to go
with it.
I also decided to filter all the messages trough procmail filter first,
which makes all kind of magic possible. If i ever get to it (or someone
sends me a procmail receipt), I want to add a rule which will flatten all
multipart e-mails, throw away all non-text attachements, translate html
into standard ASCII and put all textual parts of a multipart message
together.
Yes, I use pine to read my mail, thx for asking .-)
Also, I am thinking of prohibiting all e-mails with subjects shorter than
two words. Personally, I usually do not read mails which have a subject
like "", "help!", "problems" etc, and I feel that they are bad for
content/noise ratio of the mailing list. Maybe I am wrong on this? WDYT?
For now, I have prohibited "unsubscribe" in e-mails, and all e-mails which
are bigger than 100kb. Also, starting with today, addresses which bounce a
lot will authomatically be removed from subscribers list. Nothing personal
- you can always resubscribe, but I hope that this measure will speed up
mail delivery a lot. (Time will tell.)
By the way, below is a new "welcome message", I hope you like it.
cheers
Denis
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