Re: Mailing list question

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:50:17 +0000, Jonesy wrote: [....]
> 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.

You got it. In fact, it was news to me that Ralph had even found a way to
tell majordomo to keep a subscription yet send no mail to it; if it's
really there, it's been added since I looked last. All honor to the
developers if it has!

> 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!

Right. I've given up a lot of interesting lists in my time, essentially
because they ran on majordomo.
 
> 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.

Yes, your name is legion. Too bad there's no way of telling how many
people who could give help, not just ask for it, the list loses for that
reason. Those who know better ways, says the voice of experience, tend to
have less patience than others with awkwardness.

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

I would, but that the one user I have to support has AbiWord as her main
app; I have to be able to ask what I can't hack. And she's right: for her
purposes, something like OO is an exercise in bloat -- AbiWord is the way
for her to go. Indeed, I'm the one that put her into it.

Otoh, there is a genuine problem here, if you and I are right about
majordomo, and Ralph hasn't discovered some wonderful new development in
it. The real mainstays of this list (whoever they are; I admit I don't
even know if we have one listowner or several) are interested in word
processor development, not list running.

So they stick to what they know, which happens to be majordomo, alas! Much
as we may regret it, we can hardly blame them for not wanting what would
lead directly away from productive work, at least in the short term --
because, unless I miss my guess, the real solution would be to go to a
different list software.

Sigh. Catch-22 rules the world, and sometimes beats even Murphy.

-- 
Beartooth Sciurivore
Venato ergo sum.
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