In a message dated 10/3/2005 10:57:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bit.listserv.ibm-main and bit.listserv.vmesa-l. I find that usenet posts to bit.listserv.vmesa-l actually flow in the reverse direction ... however for posts to actually show up in the ibm-main mailing list ... you have to actually mail to the ibm-main listserver. >> It's a configuration option in lSoft for bidirectional flow. We've talked about it numerous times in the past. Back in the late 90's when American .edu dropped usenet for lack of interest, personnel, budget Google was just starting up and started gating to the usenet groups. In their never ending search for eMail addresses also allowed subscription to their copies of the original lists. Darren found out early on that the Lsoft exits weren't sufficient for uunet protocol and had to turn off bidirectional posting. The 'true' newsgroup is hosted by newsguy.com(it's a subscription too). With the advent of the harvesting .bots and SPAMmers more and more is intercepted and transmogrified in the lsoft exits. So if you're a googler and want to post:subscribe to ibm-main but set it to nomail so you won't get double posts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
