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| DATE | 2015-02-12 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] On the art of mailing lists
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Ruben mentioned this mailing list by its LHS name only ('hangout' \n 'NYLXS')
on Don Marti's linux-elitists mailing list. (Gosh, Ruben, a URL was too
much trouble?)
I looked around. I found http://www.nylxs.com/mailing.html . It says:
> The Main NYLXS Mailing List is Hangout. [...]
1. Page doesn't say what the actual mailing list address is. This
omission is a significant error, and should be fixed. There's a form to
subscribe. Used that. No feedback whatsoever about what the mailing
list address is.
2. Got a confirm mail from Majordomo-Owner-at-mrbrklyn.com. Oh, so
maybe it's hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com or hangout-at-lists.rbrklyn.com. Can't
tell yet. But we're already up to two Internet domains.
Oh, wait, the body of the confirmation message says:
Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added
to or deleted from the mailing list "hangout-at-www.mrbrklyn.com".
If you really want this action to be taken, please send the following
commands (exactly as shown) back to "Majordomo-at-www.mrbrklyn.com":
Ah, now we're up to three hostnames, and it's increasingly unclear what
the actual mailing list address is, as nothing clarifies that. This
omission is a significant error, and should be fixed.
3. Sent confirmation. Got welcome message. Which doesn't state what
the mailing list addresss is. This omission is a significant error, and
should be fixed.
4. Not very coincidentally, Ruben posted just after I joined. Ah, the
haplessly inept failure to state the mailing list address will be
mitigated, right. Sort of.
Let's look at Ruben's headers. Those should clarify things:
To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
Message-ID: <20150212071444.GC16612-at-www.mrbrklyn.com>
Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
Wow, that's just totally messed up -- not even counting the
acute embarrassment of Reply-To munging in 2015.
Ruben, you should make up your mind what the mailing list's address is,
and make your MLM and MTA use it.
I suspect you've never fixed this and never will, ultimately because you
don't care. Which is sad.
--
Cheers, If you're going to play the game properly,
Rick Moen you'd better know every rule.
rick-at-linuxmafia.com -- Sen. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas)
McQ! (4x80)
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