On 14 Nov 99, 8:53, Dennice wrote:
> >> SUBSCRIBE ALLERGY Dennice NoneofyourBusiness
Real subtle, Dennice. <droll>
I was once kicked off a Listserv by the owner by using a silly
non-name. If you want to be anonymous, just make up a fake name.
Listserv also allows you to send in a command that hides your address
from other subscribers. This, however, is becoming less necessary
because most owners today suppress the subscriber list from all but
themselves.
> > Sorry, the ALLERGY list has been locked since 99/11/12 21:14 by
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try again later and contact the list owner if the
> > condition persists.
...and the answer is:
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 01:50:58 -0800
Reply-To: Allergy Discussion Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: Allergy Discussion Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Ballew Kinnaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Allergy ADMIN: Allergy Will Temporarily Close Tomorrow
Comments: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Dear Allergy Folks,
With a most heavy heart, I must inform you that tomorrow the Allergy
Discussion Group on LISTSERV at TAMU.EDU will close - after five years
of continuous, wonderful, informative, educational, and supportive
daily allergy-realted interactions between as many as 925 members in as
many as 42 countries.
A&M Has Been Great
Texas A&M University has been a generous and supportive home for
Allergy for all of these five years, and I am full of warmth and
appreciation for all that TAMU.EDU has done for me and for Allergy
through these many months and years. Please know that I will never
forget these wonderful years at TAMU - and there will always be a soft,
warm part of my heart that remembers with deep gratitude Allergy's
founding host site.
Why Is Allergy Closing?
To make a long story short, a single former member of the Rubber
LISTSERV (my other discussion group at TAMU.EDU) wrote an irrelevant
complaint (about a Web page on a completely private server 50 miles
away from the A&M campus) to the Texas A&M administration. This
apparently brought both Allergy and Rubber to their attention. Because
A&M now has a firm rule that requires a local A&M campus "sponsor"
(student, staff, or faculty) for each LISTSERV, and because Allergy has
none, Allergy is no longer eligible to be served by the A&M LISTSERV
host.
I regret that one disgruntled former member of Rubber can have so much
negative influence on all the members of Allergy, and I very much
regret any inconvenience that this lapse in service will provide for
any of ya'll. I hope that Allergy can return to service very soon. I
particularly regret that Allergy received only 48 hours notice to find
a sponsor or close, because some of you may find it difficult on such
short notice to find alternative sources of allergy-related fellowship,
current information and support.
Search For New Host - Commercial Support
Allergy will remain closed until another host, or perhaps a Texas A&M
sponsor, is found. I expect this closure to be anywhere from a few
weeks to perhaps until the beginning of next year (2000).
Several options are under consideration, and NO decision is yet made
about whether to use Listbot, Onelist/Egroups, Lyris, LISTSERV or
something else. If commercial support is readily found, Allergy will
begin again, in a new "incarnation," very soon. If Allergy is to remain
a volunteer operation without significant commercial support, as it has
for most of its five years, it will take longer to re-configure and
move the operation to another server, etc.
[...rest snipped...]
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Okay, allergy sufferers, let's go to PLAN B. We leave the University
of A&M and go to the University of Arkansas, now.
I believe this is the same Allergy list now on a UARK.EDU server:
TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SUBJECT: {Leave Blank}
BODY: SUBSCRIBE ALLERGY yourfirstname yourlastname
Let me know if that gives you a problem, too. If so, we'll have to go
to PLAN C, I guess. :-)
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
