chris@graham (Chris Graham) (12/20/89)
Perhaps there's a better solution than unsubscribing and re-subscribing between co-op terms. For example, what about setting up accounts on contact that will automatically forward mail to Waterloo. My own system has a little over a hundred virtual usernames that do such a thing. For example, if you were to send mail to john@graham, it'll hit some guy on FidoNet, without any manual intervention. The account on contact could then be modified again when the student returns from school. This might be a simple matter of whether the list-administrator or contact's system administrator makes a change but, for the system administrator to make the change, means that regular mail can be sent to the same address all the time thereby reducing interuption of mail service. -- Thought of the day: Whosoever diggeth a pit shall fall therein. BOOK OF PROVERBS BITnet : lsuc!graham!chris@utorgpu uucp : ...!uunet!lsuc!graham!chris FidoNet: Chris ON 1:250/716
woods@robohack (Greg A. Woods) (12/21/89)
Yes, a co-operating (:-) system administrator would forward mail for
a co-op student, and this is the best way to do it.
However, what struck me as interesting was the fact that the
un-subscribe-me messages went out to the list in general, not to the
list-administrator (paul@moore, and/or hopefully
unix-unanimous-request@moore).
I would also like to point out that a system administrator can also
create local mailing list forwarder's. I have unix-unanimous mail
sent to unix-unanimous-fwd@robohack. That way I can add new users
immediately, and delete them when necessary. I also send mail to the
list administrator in order for him to keep an up to date list of real
names receiving the list.
We do something similar with mailing lists at work. Since more than
one person usually wants to read the list, we gateway through news,
and no-one's mailbox gets flooded.
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Greg A. Woods
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