[Xitami] TEST

Brian {Hamilton Kelly} xitami@lists.xitami.org
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:40:52 +0100


In message <000a01c1b4dc$0789f110$e82de00c@personal>
   "Many Lists" writes:
   
[Still posting upside-down I see; posting re-ordered to make some sense]

> From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org] On Behalf Of Ewen McNeill
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:33 PM
> > 
> > It currently does, yes, to avoid issues with people with multiple email
> > addresses. 
>
> It should be changed to subscriber mode only.  Most lists are set this
> way  & Yes there was spam on the list.

Agreed; or to be more exact in my responses to those three assertions:

Yes, It's moot (although it's not how things used to be), and Indeed

> For people with multiple addresses,  in outlook anyway  (groans in the
> background)   When I reply to this post,  it automatically uses the same
> e-mail account for which the e-mail was addressed to.
> 
> bob@bob.com subscribes to list. When he replies his computer
> automatically picks bob@bob.com and not bobswife@bob.com
> Which is another account in outlook.

Which is very astute of Outlook; finally something I can commend.

However, I'd like to see it do that trick when I post mail from my
account at work, on an entirely different computer in an entirely
different domain.  (With the only commonality being the .uk on the ends
of both addresses.)

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs