I agree with your assessment. I recall the battle between "assembly" language and "C", or "automatic" transmissions VS "shift". We DO expect "professionals" to...
Jan Zumwalt
jwzumwalt@...
Sep 1, 2003 3:17 pm
13459
Hi, I'm seeing an unusual number of not-quite-complete connections when delivering to hotmail, causing our MTA to re-queue the message. The subscriber is...
Omar
omar@...
Oct 3, 2003 7:40 pm
13460
... o> This basically means that our MTA didn't receive the final confirmation o> from hotmail that the message was delivered, and so puts it back in the o>...
Vivek Khera
khera@...
Oct 3, 2003 7:59 pm
13461
... Thanks for the data point. By backlogging, you mean they're deferring connections, or their servers aren't responding? On a semi-related note, is there...
Omar
omar@...
Oct 4, 2003 3:44 am
13462
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:32:21 -0400 ... I'm not aware of one, and am on a half-dozen list operator related lists. ... I usually find such commentary first on the...
J C Lawrence
claw@...
Oct 4, 2003 5:21 am
13463
... o> Thanks for the data point. By backlogging, you mean they're deferring o> connections, or their servers aren't responding? Connection timeouts mostly,...
Vivek Khera
khera@...
Oct 6, 2003 2:54 pm
13464
I have seen the future of politcal campaigning, and it's spelled S P A M. A few weeks ago there were local elections in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although I...
Steven Atran
steven.atran@...
Oct 15, 2003 6:17 pm
13465
It's too bad I don't look at spam anymore. Now I won't know who not to vote for... -Mitch...
Mitch Collinsworth
mitch@...
Oct 15, 2003 8:31 pm
13466
... Steve, It's been years since I've seen a spam on any mailing list I administer. You're not accepting email from strangers are you? - murr -...
murr rhame
murr@...
Oct 15, 2003 10:23 pm
13467
The mailing list that the campaign e-mail went to is an announcement only list, so that e-mail didn't get through. Nothing gets posted on that list it comes...
Steven Atran
steven.atran@...
Oct 16, 2003 12:35 pm
13468
With spam being such a political hot-button these days, I'm sure a very public "outing" of these offenders will be very effective at getting it to stop,...
Vivek Khera
khera@...
Oct 16, 2003 1:56 pm
13469
[my comments below have nothing to do with list management. This is an off-topic posting] ... That will only work for candidates who have something to lose....
Jeffrey Goldberg
jeffrey@...
Oct 16, 2003 9:47 pm
13470
RFC 1035, I think it was, dating back a few years, specified that reverse DNS lookups were optional. Has a newer RFC made them mandatory? mjb....
Mark J. Bradakis
mjb@...
Oct 19, 2003 8:23 am
13471
... No, but if you want to get your mail delivered, you'd better have one on your mail sending host. Networks from AOL on down now reject mail from no-rDNS...
John R. Levine
johnl@...
Oct 19, 2003 3:38 pm
13472
I'm trying to start a list for some students and myself, and I'd like to avoid yahoo. Does anyone know of an available server that could provide list services?...
Charles Johnson
CJohnson@...
Oct 22, 2003 8:25 pm
13473
Hi Charles, ... If your list is small, try this.. http://www.softventures.com/htm/SVListblue.htm This does all the grunt work on your local computer and uses...
Buzz Lange
buzz@...
Oct 23, 2003 7:45 pm
13474
... (b) in my lifetime. ... Majordomo ... Online Policy Group (http://www.onlinepolicy.org) is a non-profit service provider that will host lists for you in...
Roger B.A. Klorese
rogerk@...
Oct 23, 2003 8:12 pm
13475
I recently started working for a website, members join and receive a welcome message that they have to reply to before they have full access to the site. We...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Nov 5, 2003 1:17 am
13476
... Considering that we have users who have been on lists for over two years who are now reporting the posts -- with subject prefixes -- as spam, I doubt you ...
Roger B.A. Klorese
rogerk@...
Nov 5, 2003 1:30 am
13477
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, JC Dill wrote: For those of you who run lists that have a high percentage of unsophisticated subscribers, are you seeing similar problems...
James M Galvin
galvin+list-managers@...
Nov 5, 2003 1:51 am
13478
... For our website, it IS a welcome message, because they have partial access to the site after they have registered and before they have confirmed. jc...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Nov 5, 2003 3:42 am
13479
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, JC Dill wrote: ... For our website, it IS a welcome message, because they have partial access to the site after they have registered and...
James M Galvin
galvin+list-managers@...
Nov 5, 2003 1:41 pm
13480
... JD> For those of you who run lists that have a high percentage of JD> unsophisticated subscribers, are you seeing similar problems with address JD>...
Vivek Khera
khera@...
Nov 5, 2003 3:58 pm
13481
Anyone else seeing a large backlog/slowdown to AOL since last night? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera,...
Vivek Khera
khera@...
Nov 7, 2003 8:10 pm
13482
Hello, I'm also sending this to the majordomo-users list, but just wondering if anyone here can help - I'm the 'owner' of a majordomo list and have made ...
Lee
lee_19712003@...
Nov 9, 2003 7:24 am
13483
I started noticing the following on a mail server I administer. relay=mx2.mail.yahoo.com. [64.156.215.6], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 421 VS14-PR Mailbox bounce...
Steve Werby
steve-lists@...
Nov 13, 2003 8:59 pm
13484
Hi list, I'm looking to get some customisation of MHonArc done professionally. The work would involve adding an option to a resource file, whereby the amount...
Andrew Beverley
andy@...
Dec 14, 2003 7:39 pm
13485
On 14 Dec 2003 19:31:22 +0000 ... This doesn't inherently need a modification to MHonArc. Just wrap your call to MHonArc in a script which runs `du` against...
J C Lawrence
claw@...
Dec 14, 2003 9:09 pm
13486
... If I were you, I'd buy a bigger disk. Say it costs $500 to get your software adjusted which would be pretty cheap. For that price, you could easily get...
John R. Levine
johnl@...
Dec 14, 2003 10:55 pm
13487
... Thanks for the suggestion, and good point! The thing is I'm running on a remote dedicated server, so it's not quite so easy to upgrade the drive. Also,...
