cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) (06/29/88)
In article <11449@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: > >And how is it, exactly, that the moderator will get the articles if they > >don't first go through the "annoying" mailers? > > >Inquiring minds want to know this one, Wiener. > > Sigh. > > News 2.11 does the mailing for you. The point is average *users* find go- > ing through mailers annoying, find trying to figure out so-and-so's address > annoying, find trying to reroute after a bounce annoying, and so on. > > Posting to a moderated group does all the icky stuff for the *user*. I > mean, the automation of simple tasks *is* one of the points that we all > like computers in the first place, right? > > ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 This might not be the case. It depends on which network is involved. For the machine I use, a path over Inet or Bitnet is almost certain to work. However, because of certain configurational aspects here, a UUCP mailing by News to the moderator will never work. I have no difficulty fixing it up 99% of the time, but it can be guaranteed that the fixing will have to be done. Automation can be useful, but it it does not work, the problem can be extremely difficult. I have been flamed by our local postmaster for not using a simple Inet path in mailing a response to a news article, rather than asking the consultants for help. Of course, the response used the UUCP path given, which for some reason failed at some intermediate site. I know of no easy way, and I doubt there is one, to handle the various problems of even finding a correct addressing mode in the various ways that things can go wrong. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet