Subject: Re: Pine-Info list to allow postings only by its subscribers

From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:25:46 -0700 (PDT)

As announced on Mon, 30 Mar 1998, the pine-info mailing list was set to
only accept postings from subscribers yesterday morning (PDT).

Unfortunately, as it turns out, the ListProcessor serving the list is *not*
sending out notification messages to non-subscribers trying to post to the
list which explain that the message was rejected, and how to subscribe to
the list in order to be able to post to it.

Until the reasons for this are understood and overcome, this list has been
set back to again allow postings by non-subscribers (effective 7 Apr 1998
16:06 PDT), since the program-internal help (on the BUG REPORT screen) of
Pine 3.96 and earlier advises users to post a message to this list, and we
don't want that advice to result in messages becoming simply "lost in
cyberspace" (right? ;-).

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause to list subscribers.

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  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
  University of Washington        Computing & Communications        
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Stefan Kramer wrote:

SK> ....  Therefore, we are planning on
SK> setting this mailing list to accept postings only by subscribers effective
SK> Monday, April 6, 1998.  
SK> 
SK>  ------------------------------------------------------------
SK>   Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
SK>   University of Washington        Computing & Communications        
SK>   Mailstop 354841         Seattle, WA 98105-4527         USA
SK>  ------------------------------------------------------------

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 08 Apr 1998 07:39:32 +0200

> Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]> writes:

> Unfortunately, as it turns out, the ListProcessor serving the list
> is *not* sending out notification messages to non-subscribers trying
> to post to the list which explain that the message was rejected, and
> how to subscribe to the list in order to be able to post to it.

procmail with formail?

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha
The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 95,
Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.

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From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:08:30 -0700 (PDT)

As of Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:26 PDT, the pine-info mailing list is again
set to allow postings only by its subscribers.

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  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
  PINE Information Center    http://www.washington.edu/pine/
  Computing & Communications        University of Washington    
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Stefan Kramer wrote:

SK> As announced on Mon, 30 Mar 1998, the pine-info mailing list was set to
SK> only accept postings from subscribers yesterday morning (PDT).
SK> 
SK> Unfortunately, as it turns out, the ListProcessor serving the list is *not*
SK> sending out notification messages to non-subscribers trying to post to the
SK> list which explain that the message was rejected, and how to subscribe to
SK> the list in order to be able to post to it.
SK> 
SK> Until the reasons for this are understood and overcome, this list has been
SK> set back to again allow postings by non-subscribers (effective 7 Apr 1998
SK> 16:06 PDT), since the program-internal help (on the BUG REPORT screen) of
SK> Pine 3.96 and earlier advises users to post a message to this list, and we
SK> don't want that advice to result in messages becoming simply "lost in
SK> cyberspace" (right? ;-).
SK> 
SK> Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause to list subscribers.
SK> 
SK>  ------------------------------------------------------------
SK>   Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
SK>   University of Washington        Computing & Communications        
SK>  ------------------------------------------------------------
SK> 
SK> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Stefan Kramer wrote:
SK> 
SK> SK> ....  Therefore, we are planning on
SK> SK> setting this mailing list to accept postings only by subscribers effective
SK> SK> Monday, April 6, 1998.  
SK> SK> 
SK> SK>  ------------------------------------------------------------
SK> SK>   Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
SK> SK>   University of Washington        Computing & Communications        
SK> SK>   Mailstop 354841         Seattle, WA 98105-4527         USA
SK> SK>  ------------------------------------------------------------
SK> 
SK> 
SK> 
SK>