Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[weekleyj@xxxxxxxxxxxx (John Weekley)]

Luis A. Costabile wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> 
> > I have had the same thought.  A news group would be nice.  What happened
> > to me today is but one example of why a NG would be advantageous.  My
> > mail server was moved from one server to another.  During the time that
> > the new server was running without the proper user database, I probably
> > lost mail sent to me.
> 
> That's just plain bad system administration on their part.  If they're
> moving the server and the user database is not complete, they should turn
> off sendmail or disconnect the ethernet so anyone who tries to send them
> mail will get a fail but the mail will be queued up and as long as they
> finish the conversion in a day that should get you your mail since almost
> every server will retry for more than a day to send mail, approx every 4
> hours.
> 
Yup, morons :)

> > It would be nice to be able to search for answers that have already been
> > posted to questions.  This could cut down on repetition.  I also have a
> > problem managing the large amount of mail that I get.  Being on mailing
> > lists, especially ones as busy as this, causes my mail management
> > problem to increase greatly.
> >
> 
> You should try procmail if you haven't already, it's almost required if
> you're going to do mailing lists subscribing.
> 
> > As far as spammers go, kill 'em!  Well, perhaps we could have a closed news
> 
> First we take their equipment, then kill 'em!  :)
> 
As long as they have SparcStations (Ultras, anyone?)
I have enough PC equipment ;)

John Weekley


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