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