[faq-maintainers] re: [FAQ-MAINTAINERS] Re: RFC violations of this list software

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Charles Macdonald (charles.macdonald@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca)
Mon, 17 Aug 98 10:45:39 -0400


The monthly help file gives listmaster at consensus.com as the address for
technical problems with the list .... This substitution of [faqmail@landfield.com]
thing could be a real problem given the nature of the FAQ maintainers list.
For example imagine what would happen if someone said that to use a
resource one should send mail to [faqmail@landfield.com] (thats foo at Bar dot com)

Whoever designed the new software seems unfamiliar with traditional
Listserver norms, but perhaps the current internet mail audience is also
unfamiliar with those norms.

Anyway, lets wait until the "listmaster" gets back to us on the whys and
hows of the change...Hopefully this new software is just an experiment, and
its author will be directed to the RFC's and the various Mail program FAQ
files 8->>
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Original Text
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, on 98/08/17 10:38 AM:
To: INET["FAQ-Maintainers" <faq-maintainers@lists.consensus.com>]

Debbie Douglass <douglass@chaplin.ndhm.gtegsc.com> writes:
> But both of these did. They're doing a search and replace on any
> string that matches [*@*] where the astericks indicate any
> character.

Not quite any character, because that comment came through OK.
Probably not worth figuring out exactly what set of characters
they think can appear in an email address.

Actually, there's another possibility --- I think all the examples
we've tried so far had a colon in front, like this: [*@*]

Once I see whether that gets substituted, I promise to refrain
from further bandwidth wastage.

But: do any of the consensus.com mail admins actually read this list?
Or do we need to find someone to complain to?

regards, tom lane

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