rms@NEPTUNE.BERKELEY.EDU (Richard Stallman) (10/13/87)
If you send a message to a GNU mailing list, sometimes you will get an error message saying "user unknown" for the list you mailed to and for a dozen other sublists. The error message is a lie. (Actually, it is self-contradictory. If the main list name were really unknown, why would the mailer even consider the sublists?) Nothing is actually wrong. Don't send your message again. Don't tell us about it. We cannot do anything about it.
tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (10/15/87)
This is aimed at list readers who are NOT familiar with the ARPAnet
conventions for mailing lists. It's is also serving as a test of the
GNU lists. Note that many comp.emacs readers meet the criteria in the
first sentence.
1) Reports concerning problems with a mailing list should go to the
request address for that list. For the GNU Mailing Lists, these are
addresses of the form list-name-REQUEST@list-host. Just insert
"-request" after the list name. For example:
info-gnu-emacs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu
This convention is true for almost all mailing lists on the Internet
(though not many of the USENET/uucp mailing lists, and for technical
losses, most BITNET mailing lists)
It's a *RUDE* to bother a whole list, when you only need to inform the
list administrators. Please don't waste 1000's of people time. It
also wastes a lot of communication and computer resources.
2) Reports concerning mailing list problems with bad addresses other
than sub-list aliases reported on and by prep.ai.mit.edu continue to
interest us. If the rejected address contains one of the characters
"@!%.", please mail the report to the -REQUEST address for that list.
If in doubt, mail it anyhow to the -REQUEST address for that list
{I've gotten good at scanning these fast ;-}.
Thanx -len