[ILUG] Mailing list conventions, etc.

[Colm Buckley]

Ger Gorman writes:

> 1.) For some unknown reasion a few weeks back I was unsubscribed
> automatically from the ILUG mailing list....I never sent any e-mail to
> do this.

The list management software watches out for bounces and disables (not
unsubscribes) addresses which bounce.  Either 5 days of transient
delivery failures, or six consecutive bounces, cause an address to be
disabled.  It's still on the list, though, and can be re-enabled by
visiting http://www.linux.ie/mailman/options/ilug/your-email-address

> 2.) E-mails from ILUG have been comeing as Re: [ILUG] rather than as
> [ILUG] Re:

This is correct behaviour.  The previous setup was incorrect.  Re:
should always be the first thing in the Subject: line.

> And the header has the sender as the relpy address rather than the
> list itself. (I've fuck uped twice so far in sending e-mails to
> individuals rather than the list!!! >:|

Yes.  I consider it better that mail is sent to "fewer people than
intended" by accident rather than "more people than intended".  It's
trivial to type "ilug at linux.ie" into the To: line when sending a
message.

              Colm

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