Speaking of bandwidth, here's my 2 cents worth... Clifford Okoro Hope is a dangerous thing, it spreads disillusion. (Puncture, http://www.comxcomics.com) -----Original Message----- From: James Oakley [mailto:joakley@solutioninc.com] Sent: 28 September 2001 14:30 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] A gentle request For those of you using Kmail: Right-click on the message and select: Create Filter -> Filter on Subject... Then all will be well again. If people could use their flame energy to create applications, Linux would be *done*. -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Just so everyone knows. This list is a privilage..not a right. SuSE doesn't run this list as part of any paid tech support ..they do it as a service to the users. They don't have people assigned to maintaining these lists as their only job and for the amount of traffic (useless and useful) that passes through here..they do a damn good job. Remember one small thing that should stop all the discussions about how this list is run.... You don't pay for this list in any way..not by buying distribution boxes..or any other way. It's a service that is provided because they want to..not because they have to do it. This is both free speech and free beer and SuSE can close the bar down at any time. I am sure CKM and Mads would love to get other things done then deal with people whining that they can correctly form a To: field. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:56:03PM -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Just so everyone knows. This list is a privilage..not a right. SuSE doesn't run this list as part of any paid tech support ..they do it as a service to the users. They don't have people assigned to maintaining these lists as their only job and for the amount of traffic (useless and useful) that passes through here..they do a damn good job.
Remember one small thing that should stop all the discussions about how this list is run....
You don't pay for this list in any way..not by buying distribution boxes..or any other way. It's a service that is provided because they want to..not because they have to do it.
This is both free speech and free beer and SuSE can close the bar down at any time. I am sure CKM and Mads would love to get other things done then deal with people whining that they can correctly form a To: field. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Amen. Some good sense from a damned Yank. Oh, you too, Ben. :p I
mean the other Ben.
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Corvin Russell
Remember one small thing that should stop all the discussions about how this list is run....
You don't pay for this list in any way..not by buying distribution boxes..or any other way. It's a service that is provided because they want to..not because they have to do it.
I pay for a number of the lists that I support with my time in answering questions. ( I have only just got back to Unix after a long forced absence, and would hope to start providing the same service here ). I repeat my previous comment, as badly set up lists cause me and a lot of my co-contributors an considerable amount of time and expense fighting the problems. Mail that is AUTOMATICALLY distributed to multiple readers SHOULD return any problems direct to the list, not hound the innocent authors of posts. The current setting of this list is a potential mail bomb waiting to explode, and given the volume of mail, the problem I had yesterday with a small ISP resulted in some 30000 failure reports and several people being disabled for hours. It is essential that any automatic replies to automatic mails return to the originator of that mail, where it can be handled, rather than some third party who has no means of stopping the problem. If someone can explain who this situation will not arise with the current settings then I will shut up, but I don't see the <Reply> selection, while being a pain in the posteria, is the actual problem here. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services
On Friday 28 September 2001 8:25 pm, lester@lsces.co.uk wrote:
Remember one small thing that should stop all the discussions about how this list is run....
You don't pay for this list in any way..not by buying distribution boxes..or any other way. It's a service that is provided because they want to..not because they have to do it.
I pay for a number of the lists that I support with my time in answering questions. ( I have only just got back to Unix after a long forced absence, and would hope to start providing the same service here ).
I repeat my previous comment, as badly set up lists cause me and a lot of my co-contributors an considerable amount of time and expense fighting the problems. Mail that is AUTOMATICALLY distributed to multiple readers SHOULD return any problems direct to the list, not hound the innocent authors of posts. The current setting of this list is a potential mail bomb waiting to explode, and given the volume of mail, the problem I had yesterday with a small ISP resulted in some 30000 failure reports and several people being disabled for hours.
It is essential that any automatic replies to automatic mails return to the originator of that mail, where it can be handled, rather than some third party who has no means of stopping the problem.
If someone can explain who this situation will not arise with the current settings then I will shut up, but I don't see the <Reply> selection, while being a pain in the posteria, is the actual problem here.
Pleeeaassse! Let this thread die. We've had an explanation from SuSE and most
of the 'regulars' seem happy with the way things are. When things have gone
awry big-time the 'list owner' has stepped in and unsubscribed the offending
account.
If you don't like it the way it is you know what the remedy is: unsubscribe.
M
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Martin Webster
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