From: "Rachel Blackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:15:14 -0700
So... my recommendation would be that we put aside the 'is AOL wrong'
argument and try to help Cyndi find a /solution/ to the problem. My
personal recommendation would be to stick a simple little filter in front
of the list approval/subscription address, and if you find <. in the
message subject, eat that period. If it will stop this argument and let
the list get back to something useful, I'll even write the procmail receipe
or the script or whatever is needed to do that for Cyndi so we can all get
back on with life. :)
Thanks but if it were just a matter of procmail, I could probably even do
it myself (okay, I'd accept your help in a heartbeat, who am I kidding).
The problem is I have no access to the mailing list software or the mailing
list server. The person who wrote the software no longer works for
best/verio. Best basically doesn't exist anymore and verio is even less
receptive to actually budgeting money for a staff person to deal with
mailing list issues (all the staff who have done it have done it as a
favor; only very basic stuff like creating new lists is a real staff
duty).
I'm not allowed to run my own mailing list software and I am not allowed to
get around that limitation by using procmail. Since I don't want my list
to end up at egroups or topica, I accept the restrictions. Maybe I can
change that if I ever manage to get my web server up (anyone near Oakland
know how to set up a Mac server?) but for now I'm stuck.
My intention was never to have a "is AOL right or wrong?" discussion. And
believe me no one has to point out the limitations of BestServ to me. I
just wanted to know, is the problem universal (i.e., not just me), does AOL
know about it, what is AOL's reason for doing this, and is there any way
AOL will change it? I've got most of these answers and some good guesses
for the others.
Thanks,
Cyndi
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