Re: Mailing list question

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:32:13 -0700, Ralph Alvy wrote:
>
> On Friday 09 September 2005 02:42 pm, Jonesy wrote:
>> Is _that_ true? hmmmm... I've been reading (and posting to) a number
>> of Gmane ng's by using my newsreader: slrn. A couple (like the Mandrake/
>> Madrivia ng's) send a "reply-to-this-email" to confirm you before a post
>> is made. That I can live with. Others offer 'open' posting. I've only
>> recently added this ng to my list -- and, until now, I've only been lurking
>> here. With this, I'll see if I can post, as well.
>
> Your post came through fine.

No, it did not. I received a 'confirm' email that required me to subscribe.

> But, unlike the other groups, here you'll keep
> getting messages in your email inbox too. Not a big problem since there is
> very little action here.

Yes, I went through the PITA process to subscribe, and then replied to the
first message. I also tried the "set no delivery" request as one of
the emails 'explained'. WRONG! I got an error reply from Majordomo saying
the request was in error, and it listed all the requests that _could_ be
made. *NONE* of the listed commands included a "no delivery", or "NOMAIL",
"vacation", or "quiet" ability.

What a convoluted 'process'! Now I am subscribed, but I only want to read
and post via slrn - ala usenet. I suppose - to remain 'active' here - I
could add a recipe to procmail to kill all incoming list messages. UGLY!

I don't think I need Yet-One-More-Subscription-To-Something-I-Think-I-Am-
Interested-In. I've got a filing cabinet full of folders containing scraps
of paper with misc. email addy's, passwords, usernames, URL's, etc. that
I can't find anything in now.

This all may explain the low volume I see in here.

I'll just unsubscribe and treat this as a Read-Only ng.

73
Jonesy

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