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RE: Return to sender... Address unknown (hum along).



I agree with Harvey  about having a little respect for the efforts donated to the group. Lets
keep it friendly and professional. 

>Ira Abramov writes:
 >> 
 >> that does it!
 >> 
 >> who is the shlep that's running the show in JCT? move the the list to a 
 >> propper MAJORDOMO running on a propper LINUX and not some Novel junk, and 
 >> PLEASE configure the bounce messages to go to hell, instead of puffing up 
 >> my inbox! NIMAS! I get 2-4 of those for every post I make to the list!

> > and Ilan! poll more often, or use POP/UUCP, whatever.

>What is this becomming, Gripe-il?

>The "shlep" who set up Linux-il is the guy who set up the mailing list
>for us while everyone else was discussing how to do it, or whether or
>not to do it, or whether it should be a mailing list or a newsgroup.
>Shlep?  I think not.  So how about having a little respect.  If you
>don't like all those bounces, maybe you shouldn't post so much :).

>To provide a little history, The Israel Linux Users started when I
>posted a message to il.something.or.other asking if anyone wanted to
>form a Linux users group.  This quickly generated about 20 members, so
>I asked if anyone could set up a mailing list for the group.  Well,
>while I started poking around, trying to figure out how I might set up
>a mailing list given that I don't have root privileges, and while
>people were suggesting to my "try procmail", "try majordomo", ...,
>Dovie Adler sent me a message volunteering (it's starting to look more
>and more like kamakazing every day) to set up the mailing list.  I
>sent him back a message saying "It's ok - I'm looking into procmail &
>majordomo.  I should be able to wire up something or other...".

>Within an hour, I received another message from Dovie - "Well, it
>wasn't a bother really.  I've already got it set up."

>Thus was born Linux-il@hagigia, running under Novell!

>Now, as for the bounces, it's both of our faults.  I have
>list-maintainer privileges, so I could remove the addresses that
>bounce.  However, I haven't been mailing to Linux-il so often lately,
>so I'm not up on which addresses are the offenders (although I suppose
>I will be after I mail this).  However, I don't want to just go and
>remove those addresses, because it might just be a temporary outage.

>So, Dovie - Can your server be set up *not* to reflect those messages
>back to the sender?  Can you instead just log the undeliverables
>somewhere & periodically remove them from the list?

>Thanks,

>Harvey

Yossi B.