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Re: Administrivia
Quoth Alex Shnitman on Tue, Mar 30, 1999:
> I'm sorry to sound even more Microsoftian, but this is not a bug, this
> is a feature. :-) One that allows us to subscibe e.g. using
> username-linuxil@domain.com for filtering purposes and continue using
> username@domain.com when mailing out so that personal replies go back
> to the right mailbox.
That's what I do for several others mailing lists, and I repeat:
change your From: header. You should know how to do it
automatically, and if you don't, either do it manually, or see
below.
> Sure this separation can be done using one mail
> address and procmail filtering rules, but may people prefer it the
> other way, and what is the reason to reduce choice, solving *no
> problem whatsoever*?
Exactly. You can filter your mail with procmail or whatever
based on the headers.
> When we will have no other choice, we'll do it.
> I don't see what's so hard to understand about it.
Some time ago, I created a mailing list here, which I left open
for everyone to post, by mistake. It was advertized only in one
Usenet newsgroup, and on one almost unknown page on the Web. And
I got spammed on that list.
> > 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?
>
> God, just don't let this explode to a flame war.
It already is.
> Sure it can be worked around,
s/around/with/
> and there certainly are lists which
> *need* this measure of protection,
Read: every list. Otherwise I could just set up an alias, and
leave it like that. List is for the subscribers. If you can't
change From: automatically and don't want to do it by hand, which
is perfectly legitimate, filter your mail basaed on headers. If
you can't do any of them, c'est la vie, lots of people live with
one mailbox while being subscribed to several lists.
> but as long as we don't, I suggest
> we keep this this measure deactivated, since it is more convenient
> that way.
I see that you are, indeed, subscribed under a different address.
So if you can't change your From: header automatically when
posting here, re-subscribe now. I'm yet to have a good argument
to leave this list open.
> If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
I will sue myself and lose if the mailing lists _I_ set up gets
spam. And I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror if I
know that such possibility exists.
Vadik.
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