On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 04:11:36PM -0400, Charlie Summers wrote:
Am I the _only_ person who read the .example files, and so know that the X-Command line may be placed in the body if one incorporates the recipe in .examples/rc.local.r00? This eliminates _all_ discussion about mail clients, since it will work perfectly with _any_ client.
If you have control over the SL installation; we've had plenty of mail here from people whose ISPs have installed it and who want to be able to use the vanilla version.
I agree entirely! On the other hand, I want to see the spammers that are Topica and Egroups go out of business. Again off-topic, this is an opportunity for a _serious_ business plan to lease advert-free lists to consumers and businesses;
Most people don't seem to object to advertisements as much as I (and, it seems, you) do. Witness the "free" ISPs in the USA.
...much as I _hate_ these services, I have to tell you that although I am subscribed to lists on both services under nom de plumes, I haven't received spam from them to those addresses (other than the annoying advertisements in all of the mail that comes through them), noting that I have never posted to the lists and only monitor them. This is not to be construed as a positive comment; I still dislike them as much as you do.
It's also not my experience.
or mailman and _only_ be able to do useful stuff via the web interface. (Such, at least, is my experience of mailman lists.) From the user end, you can do pretty much everything the web interface can by sending the proper commands to the server via email. I dunno about the admin section, since I've never bothered installing mailman.
Fair enough. Roger -- Roger Burton West -/- roger@firedrake.org http://firedrake.org/roger/