Re: OT: The Iris Lists

From: Christopher Lindsey <nospam@mallorn.com>

[ lots of points from 

   http://www.mallorn.com/lists/iris-l/jul98/msg00249.html 

removed to cut down on unnecessary quoting ]

Hi all, 

   I haven't posted anything in a while, so some of you may not know me (in
   fact, most of you won't) -- I'm the guy who does the list archiving
   at mallorn.com.  I wanted to make a statement about the archives in
   response to some personal mail that I've received and address some
   points in John's message referenced above.  

   First off, I'm going to continue running the archives for as long
   as possible.  That means until

      a) I go bankrupt and can't afford to run them anymore
      b) I get run over by a truck and nobody else here wants to keep
         supporting them

   I don't see either of these happening any time soon (I HOPE! :),
   so I'll stick with the list in whatever form it takes, whereever
   it happens to go.  

   I did feel compelled to respond to John's post about the benefits
   of Onelist over the old iris-l list.  What I'm saying isn't intended
   to downplay Onelist's achievements or point out rt66's faults...  I'm
   just stating some facts...  Whew.  Now that I've protected my rear...

   Anyhow, the points that John brought up about mailing list
   management are quite valid.  However, it should be noted that any
   *properly* configured list server should also deal with the 
   issues of 

      o user privacy
      o protecting the list from spam
      o bounced mail going to the listowner
      o unwanted subscriptions (adding someone else unwillingly)
      o filtering mail based on keywords (bad words, "unsubscribe")

   So what's my point?  If the list does migrate elsewhere, don't 
   settle for anything less.  These features are all possible, but
   many list managers just don't want to put in the time to
   do things right.  Sometimes they just don't know how either --
   send them my way if that's the case, and I'll be glad to help
   educate...

Happy irising,

Chris

P.S.  If there are any features that you would like to see added/changed
      in the archives, please don't hesitate to ask me.  I've already
      received a wish list from John, so his suggestions are in the 
      works.  But they're not easy ones to implement -- thanks John!
      Don't want me becoming idle!  :)

P.P.S.  Adding a metoo://username@dom.ain will break mail addresses 
        in the archives.  Adding 

           <a href="u*@dom.ain">username@dom.ain</a>

        works just fine.  I think mailto:// is specific to certain
        mailers, and not part of the standards.

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