I have both a Usenet FAQ and a mailing list that I maintain. I thought
there would be a "size" filter for these lists. Also, knowing that not all
lists are *totally* automated, that perhaps there was a human taking care of
anything unforeseen. This mail was mostly intended for Pamela Greene, the
maintainer. I wasn't expecting it to be broadcast. But since everyone knows
about it by now, ...
I have gotten *some* help. The suggestion about mime-encoding is taken. It
should be added however, that those attachments I sent were *also*
mime-encoded. Double jeopardy.
It still doesn't explain why the "Additions and Changes" volume of the FAQ
never got posted at all. Since everyone by now has at least the header of
what should be the *new* version of the "Additions and Changes" volume plus a
full body of the old version to compare it with (which is currently posted,
but out of date), any suggestions?
Actually, the old version may not be much to go on, since it was a
MIME-encoded attachment in your email. Its header SHOULD look like this (as
seen on Usenet) (NOTE: this emailer (Pegasus) breaks up long lines - the
posting of the actual FAQ is done using PINE to the FAQ server):
===============START OF HEADER================
From: pking@idirect.com (Paul E. J. King)
Newsgroups: sci.bio.food-science,sci.answers,news.answers
Subject: [sci.bio.food-science] Additions and Changes to FAQ, and New User
Info
Supersedes: <sci/food-science-faq/diff_894541044@rtfm.mit.edu>
Followup-To: sci.bio.food-science
Date: 21 May 1998 12:04:07 GMT
Organization: none
Lines: 216
Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
Expires: 18 Jun 1998 12:02:13 GMT
Message-ID: <sci/food-science-faq/diff_895752133@rtfm.mit.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: penguin-lust.mit.edu
Summary: Additions and changes to the FAQ, including information for new
users.
X-Last-Updated: 1997/02/05
Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU
Path: nemo.idirect.com!island.idirect.com!feed.nntp.acc.ca!
news-pen-1.sprintlink.net!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!
news.sprintlink.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!
newsfeed.internetmci.com!18.181.0.26! b loom-beacon.mit.edu!
senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv
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sci.answers:5950
Archive-Name: sci/food-science-faq/diff
Posting-Frequency: biweekly
Last-modified: 1997/02/05
===============END OF HEADER==================
Again, sincere apologies for cramming anyone's email with the attacments.
Paul King
> Date: Fri, 22 May 98 08:08:55 -0400
> From: faqmail@paleo.org (Edward Reid)
> Subject: Re: (fwd/verbatim) [sci.bio.food-science] Welcome - Read this First! (FAQ 1/3) - and others
> To: FAQ-Maintainers@consensus.com
> Reply-to: <FAQ-Maintainers@consensus.com>
> Omer Zak writes:
>
> > Can anything be done about someone who made an honest mistake and
>
> Yes. Forgive.
>
> You said it yourself: it was an honest mistake. Probably a
> result of similar aliases set up in his mailer. Have you
> never made such a mistake? Do you have a viable suggestion
> on how to fix this problem, which thousands of people have
> pondered, which has been examined at length on comp.risks,
> which is at heart a psychological problem and not a
> technical problem?
>
> Additional warnings and punishments aren't going to have
> much effect on honest errors.
>
> I could see filtering mailing list submissions for size, and
> trapping anything over 10K for list-owner approval. That
> would be far more effective than trying to stop it at the
> source. This list has already been remarkably free of such
> problems.
>
> Edward Reid
>
>
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