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Re: Moving the list

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Moving the list
• From: Jeffrey Lomas <jeff.lomas@o...>
• Date: 13 Mar 2003 11:13:00 -0500
• Cc: "\"Bullard, Claude L ""(Len)\"" <clbullar@i...>, "'SimonSt.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200303131544.KAA13646@m...>
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John,
I am able to set up "no mail" addresses on the backend.  In order to
have this invoked, I must be notified.  

Regards,
Jeffrey Lomas
OASIS

 
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 10:47, John Cowan wrote:
> "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> 
> > Why don't we find out what it is that is going 
> > wrong with the listserver first?  Give the technical 
> > guy assigned to the task a bit of time to figure 
> > out the problem.
> 
> It's not just a matter of glitches, or what's wrong.  For example, I
> suffer because I have to post from two different addresses, and therefore
> must sign up twice.  However, there is no way to set one of the addresses
> "nomail".  Consequently, I get every posting twice.  I redirect them
> to an xml-dev folder and delete every other message before reading,
> but it's annoying and error-prone to do that.  Every other listserv
> software I know of supports "nomail" or the equivalent.
> 
> The inadequacy of the archive software, which loses messages and then
> finds them again, emits badly borked HTML, and is otherwise annoying,
> is well documented on this list (or would be if we had working archives!).
> 
> OASIS has chosen for reasons of its own to use substandard
> listserv/archive software.  We should choose for that reason not to use
> OASIS.  And when the director has in effect told us "ite, missa est",
> we should do what he says.
> 
> -- 
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