All,
Thought I'd take this opportunity to reply to some of the discussions
that have been choking the life out of this list lately, and to address
some other points as well. Please read the whole message, and send any
comments to me directly - no need to clutter the list further.
1) Lost mail.
There were a series of problems with servers, routers, and circuits
this past week that caused some disruptions in service. But none of
these caused lost mail, just some delivery delays. Anything lost is
due to #2 below.
2) Subscribe properly
Lost mail may be caused by you posting from an unsubscribed address.
These posts are currently being caught because of problems with spam
we had a while back. I review and approve anything I recognize from
list members, but I cannot guarantee the timeliness of this. I also
try to spot and autoadd people to gnhlug_post if they start posting
from a second address, but again make no promises. The number of posts
from these secondary addresses is growing; please don't go complaining
to the list about mail failures before you investigate your own end
for the problem. Personally, I only use one address, and only read
during work hours, so night/weekend snafus don't get investigated
by me until next business day.
3) What the lists are
A review of what lists exist for gnhlug is below. To find out what
addresses you have subscribed where, send the message 'who <list>'
from a known subscribed address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a full
member list for <list> (as below) will be returned to you. Send
'info <list>' for a copy of the info file for <list>.
gnhlug
- For general discussion. Also receives posts to gnhlug-announce,
so don't subscribe to both unless you like duplicate mail.
Also the address to send messages to after joining gnhlug_post.
gnhlug_post
- For subscribing addresses you post from, but don't want to
receive messages at.
gnhlug-announce
- For announcements like meeting dates, installfests.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- For discussion of organizational issues. Note the address;
this one is not maintained at the same location as the rest.
4) The 'Reply-to:' field munging
I have read the documents
http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
as well as the group discussions.
For the record, there were three votes in favor of keeping it as
is: Ken Coar, Chuck MacKinnon, and myself (not posted, but I was
the one that turned the feature on, believing it to be useful).
I would not have thought so many people felt it necessary to
take discussions offlist, or the feature would have stayed off.
As it is, I will accede to popular demand. For the benefit of those
who have not yet weighed in and want to, I will accept votes by
*private* mail until noon tomorrow. Majority rules. Current
majority, by 11 to 3, wants the munging turned off.
To ease sorting/counting, put your choice in the subject line.
Use 'VOTE: REPLY-LIST' if you want the reply-to to default back
to the list, and 'VOTE: REPLY-SENDER' if you want it going to
the original sender.
MarkG
GNHLUG List Administrator
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Phone: +1 (603) 884-1511 Nashua, NH 03062-2698 USA
Views expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer.
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