Look, maybe it's easier for some of us than others, but it isn't any more
difficult for anybody than getting Eudora and using it.
And, there are probably other solutions that I personally am not familiar with.
Rather than have a holy war about how rp-ml _outht_ to do this, figure out
how _you_ can make it work the way it is being done.
Alternatively, someone else could voluntarily publish a digest or whatever,
and we'll all subscribe.
For me, having the mail come in directly is quite convenient, at least at
this stage.
>>In a message dated 96-06-20 22:18:19 EDT, you write:
>>> Subj: rp-ml
>>> Date: 96-06-20 22:18:19 EDT
>>> From: igibson@hkucc.hku.hk (Ian Gibson)
>>> Sender: owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>>> Reply-to: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>>> To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>...
>>Mail programs can be set up differently. My mail (AOL-definitely NOT the
>>greatest) gives me the above "short" header, with a full nasty detail
>header
>>at the bottom of the message. A reply does go to rp-ml, but the short
>header
>>clearly indicates the author....
>
>>Rob Lloyd
>>reml@aol.com
>
>To me, as I sit behind some kind of firewall, the header of your message
>looks like this:
>>From: REML @ SMTP (REML) {rp-adm@bart.lpt.fi}
>>To: rp-ml @ SMTP (rp-ml) {rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi}
>
>As you see, your original address disappeared.
>I know I am not the only one who is suffering from such
>misconfigurations.
>
>Anyway, with over 1000 subscribers and heavy traffic (had over 40 mails
>after one day office leave),
>I suggest:
>1.) To let EVERYBODY write his/her e-mail address below their message, as
>you did.
>2.) To convert rp-ml into a Usenet newsgroup. (PC-based newsreaders are
>now easily available; there is Newsagent from Forte, or you can use
>Netscape news).
>3.) To distribute a daily digest via e-mail
>4.) To find mechanisms that will make it possible to use the full
>functionality of the new rp-ml newsgroup via e-mail, so people with no
>other Internet access than e-mail could participate like in the old days.
>
>Do others want this, too ?
>Is this technically possible ?
>Would the guys in Finland be able & willing to go for it ?
>
>With kind regards, Juergen Bauer
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dipl. Ing. Juergen Bauer, Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and
>Applied Work Science (BIBA), P.O. Box 33 05 60, 28 335 Bremen,
>Germany,
>Phone: +49/421/218-5595, Fax: +49/421/218-5510, Email:
>bau@biba.uni-bremen.de,
>http://www.biba.uni-bremen.de/users/bau/bau.html
Best regards,
Chris
Chris McArdle
cmca@snet.net
203.853.4961 (vox)
203.853.4971 (fax)
"I have preached the right of the individual to indulge his personal faith
at his personal risk. I have discussed the kinds of risk; I have contended
that none of us escape all of them; and I have only pleaded that it is
better to face them open-eyed than to act as if we did not know them to be
there."
- William James
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