Re: UAA List Serve

I'm a little late coming into this discussion, but I have yet to see a
member automatically unsubscribed for any reason other than mail server or
connectivity problems on the recipient's end. In the case of mail server
problems on the recipient's end, most often the member isn't even aware of
a problem, as was the case with Jim's problem that he mentions below.
Those problems will always be present regardless of where the list lives.

I have been the defacto list admin ever since we took it over from Jim and
Rox Bennett a number of years ago. I remember that at some point I gave
you admin rights to the list, Greg, and as I look at your list
subscription, I see that your old address, pabi@acsalaska.net was the one
with admin rights, not your current one, pabi@gci.net. Mike Barsalou is
also configured as a list admin. With Ecartis, admins get a report when
users are automatically unsubscribed which indicates the reason for the
unsub. Maybe what needs to happen here is to get a couple of interested
individuals into the role of list admin. Regardless, root access is
certainly not needed for any function of list administration. If for some
reason it is, then the contact would be Mike Robinson
<afmcr@uaa.alaska.edu>.

My personal opinion is that it's good where it's at, but then I realize
that I may have a clearer understanding than others of the issues
surrounding the auto unsubscribe mechanism in Ecartis.

Mike

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, jgribbin@alaska.net wrote:

> I think we need to figure out why people get bumped off first.
> I know the last time I was having a problem with getting bumped is that the my mail-server that was receiving my list mail was bouncing it back to the list-server as un-deliverable. When this happens, the list-server automatically drops your subscription.
>
> When this was happening to me, Mike Tibor was good enough to send me a copy of the log where my server was bouncing the mail. I used that as ammo to talk to the outfit managing my mail host to resolve the issue.
>
> As I am under the impression that this "automatic un-subscribe" is a pretty standard feature of list-servers, changing to another host is not going to resolve the problem
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>
> Date: Monday, December 4, 2006 5:13 pm
> Subject: UAA List Serve
>
>> There are problems with the current list serve at UAA. While it
>> has been a
>> great community service to host our list for us I believe we
>> should host
>> our own list so we can have root on the box.
>>
>> We are having problems with members being denied access to post
>> because
>> the list thinks the person is not signed up, while the person is
>> actually
>> signed up. Members being dropped from the list.
>>
>> IMHO the best solution is to find a member with a server who has
>> list
>> serve software running. Dee McKinney has volunteered his server to
>> do
>> this. Dee does not have to be the only admin but obviously we need
>> to
>> decide who is , moderator, admin & with Dee's blessing root.
>>
>> The current list status is unacceptable, and I don't feel like
>> bothering
>> the UAA admin when we can do this ourselves.
>> --
>> Greg Madden
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