Periodic Administrivia

[P3D Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A recent inquiry about looking at the subscriber list reminded me
that I need to send out the following which appears every couple
of months to explain why you might get unsubscribed when you
did not ask to have it done...

--B.W.

>
>Assuming that a person receives an un-anticipated unsubscribe
>notification, it's almost always due to a mail transmission
>problem. Messages have come back indicating some kind of error.
>
>Depending on the nature of the message, one of three things will
>happen.
>
>1. Worst - if a mail loop has developed then an address is cut
>immediately (fortunately this does not happen often due to built
>in safeguards in the software).
>
>2. The second level of urgency is if a message comes back which says
>that the machine/site is known, but the USER is unknown. Normally this
>indicates that a user account has been terminated (particularly from
>Compuserve/AOL/etc.). In that case, the subscription is swapped over
>to DIGEST from ACK (if it is not that way already) so that the moderators
>won't be buried in error messages every time a posting goes out. If
>the user unknown message persists for several digests, it will then be
>deleted.
>
>3. The third level of urgency is that the MACHINE/SITE is not known.
>This usually indicates a net outage, which may well fix itself 
>in a few hours/days. Again depending on the nature of the message,
>either the subscription is carried for awhile unchanged, or it may
>be swapped to digest mode. If a machine is unreachable for a week or
>so, then the user is de-subscribed. The moderators will try to estimate
>how difficult a particular machine may be to reach due to international
>situations (ie, Serbia/Croatia right now) and/or remote location, and
>give more "slack" in the unsubscribe time in those cases.
>
>In the case of initial or re-subscribes, note that this is a 
>"semi-moderated" list - each person has to be approved before joining -
>it is not automatic. This is a security measure (most mailing lists
>are going or have already implemented this).
>

THANKS

  -------- Bob Wier ----- wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----
          Friday, September 6, 1996
      Texas A & M University - Commerce
   keeper of the Motorola MC68HC11, ICOM Radio, and
 Overland-Trails mailing lists and the LDS Genealogy
            State Research Outlines 



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