I think you have a good plan. Go for it; don't deal with every petty person who cannot find a way to unsub-anything.
Keep on with the Rustoleum and GO FLY. Ron Freiberger mailto: rfreiber...@swfla.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Mark Langford Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 9:55 AM To: KRnet Subject: KR> list problems KRnetHeads, Thanks for all the kind words of encouragement. Maybe I over-reacted regarding switching list servers. The list started "eating" about one out of three or four posts, and this went on for weeks until I pitched enough of a fit to get it fixed. It turns out it was attributed to Jurgen signing up on the list, and the umlauts in his name led to messages disappearing. Sounds flaky to me! Then somebody unsubscribed and the whole subscriber list got unsubscribed along with them due to a bug, which was bad enough, but they were able to resubscribe everybody, but the most recent backup of the subscriber settings was from FOUR months ago, so people who had their mail on "hold" or had switched to the digest or whatever, started emailing me that something was screwed up, and I just got bent out of shape over it all, especially when I'm accused of throwing somebody off because I must not have liked something they said yesterday. One more nagging thing that they've NEVER been able to fix is preventing ALL attachments. The only way I've been able to handle attachments is with a 10k size limit. They've given it one more try though, so maybe even that's fixed now. But if you guys don't mind this thing acting up every now and then, and don't blame it on me, I'll stick with it. Of that list that Ameet posted, Mailman will do the first 9, and I'm using every one of them. The rest of the list I can live without, and I hate advertising and pop-ups more than just about anybody on the planet (Google Toolbar fixed that one though), not to mention spam. But one thing is going to change. Not a day goes by that I don't get 2 or 3 complaints or administrator messages that a message is being held for my "approval" that contains attachments, or is absolutely huge because the entire digest is quoted in it, and I'm getting tired of messing with them. I used to explain to the folks that you can't send attachments, and that there is a size limit to keep people from quoting the entire digest in their replies, etc, etc. I'm tired of wasting my time on that stuff when it clearly states these rules in the "Welcome to KRnet" message. And then there are all those folks who are convinced that I've suddenly "locked" them out of the list, but the reality is that they changed email addresses and forgot to subscribe under their new address. And there are those who send their messages in HTML format with smiley faces, nice backgrounds, and all sorts of other graphics attached to each message, but wonder why their messages are too big to make it through the size filter, despite getting an administrative message that explains that their message is too big. And then there are the endless "unscrebe me" messages posted to the list, that defy all explanation. These kinds of problems are going to go unanswered (if I stay in the mood I'm in right now)...they'll have to figure it out themselves. I'm simply too selfish with my time to deal with this stuff while my airplane sits waiting on me to finish it. I guess I'm just ventilating again. Just call me "drama queen". I'm going back to work... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford _______________________________________ to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
