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Re: Administrivia
Quoth Ira Abramov - Scalable Solutions on Tue, Mar 30, 1999:
> Today, Vadim Vygonets blurbed:
Yup, I did.
> > I'm asking again and again: how come that people on other mailing
> > lists can live perfectly with closed-post mailing lists, and you,
> > the mailing list dealing with Linux, the operating system for the
> > clever hackers, can't? Just explain it to me, will you?
>
> well, I'm on svlug (Silicon Valley). they are still using majordomo,
> they have a secondarly list my incoming mail is checked against, which
> basically includes all the subscribers, AND their aliases.
[snip]
> the first time a message from me at another address hits the list, it's
> deffered pending a moderator's review. if he sees it's kosher, he
> releases it and adds my from address to the secondery list. simple, eh?
> yes, but it means someone hs to sift through those "outside" posts, at
> least for the first time each address is used. if you are willing to do
> that or delegate it, I'll be happy.
I was actually to post this solution, but didn't, because I was
waiting for people to overcome their laziness. I wanted to post
this _after_ you understand the real reason you didn't like my
stalinistic solution. And I recalled about it only today on my
way home. I did post some messages since then, though.
Whatever.
Listar has a feature using which you can subscribe to a list but
not receive mail from it. It will let you to post from the
subscribed address, although you will get mail to another
address. When I re-post the subscription instructions, I will
explain how to use it.
Thus, the responsibility to maintain the address list falls on
the users, not the administrator, which means that I can sit
back, relax, and drink my coffee, smoke my sigarette, and inject
my heroin (FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY).
Ok, so this far, the setup of this list after the migration seems
to be:
1. Closed post, with an option for "deaf" subscription (a
standard Listar feature).
2. Nightly digest issues.
3. Message size limited to 8KB, excluding headers. What
do you think about that?
Vadik.
--
It was state of the art, he said.
The art in this case was probably pottery.
-- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens"