Thank you. Very much appreciated on all fronts. Otis Wright
Doug Brewer wrote: > Hi troops, > > Bob asked for a description of what happened to the list, so here's a brief > synopsis: > > It broke. > > The longer story is like this: The digest mode went wonky (for reasons that > remain unclear to me), so I made an adjustment to fix it, only I fixed the > wrong thing, which put everyone on the digest mode, and this gave birth to > a huge loop problem which then caused the whole thing to come tumbling down > around me. > > After attempting to fix it one piece at a time, which only served to turn > it into an enormous house of cards again, I did what any masochist would > do; I nuked it and started all over. Once I had it up and running, the > software was misinterpreting subscribe requests and subscribing itself > instead of the requested subscribe address, which took me a while to track > down.I'm pretty sure I have that corrected. > > It is still a little wobbly, but over the last few days I've been getting > nearer to a stable set-up. I think now I have the reply-to setting under > control and have just added a couple of scripts to reject excessive > quoting, attachments, HTML/MIME and a couple other things. > > Next up on the agenda is to address the digest format and again implement > the no-mail option, for those of you concerned about those. > > I apologize for the inconvenience of all this, and hope the new set-up will > again act in the efficient and invisible manner for which it is designed. > > Thanks, > > Doug "List Guy" Brewer > we now return you to your regularly scheduled pissing contest. Anybody took > any photos lately?
