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From: Sahin Isik (Sahin.Isik@globalone.net)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 05:09:30 EDT


Hi Jared ;

Please subscribe me to juniper-nsp mailing list ?

Thx,
sahin

Jared Mauch wrote:

> I'm the list maintainer for cisco-nsp, juniper-nsp and
> a variety of other mailing lists hosted on puck.nether.net.
>
> puck.nether.net uses software called smartlist to deliver messages
> to your mailbox. The distribution of messages is based on the addresses
> contained in a file called "dist" for each list. This is typically
> a hardlink to another list called "accept". In order to prevent
> UCE/spam from getting to the list, we restrict posting to those people
> in the accept file.
>
> In order to allow posting from multiple addresses (eg:
> jared@nether.net, jared@puck.nether.net) I remove the hardlink and have
> two seperate files. (This is why some of you may see delays in your
> postings, and see that I "bounce" them to the list).
>
> The failure we experienced causing people to get subscribed to
> juniper-nsp resulted from an attempt to insure that the accept file was
> up-to-date. The juniper-nsp dist file was still a hardlink (which I did not
> notice). I went and appended the combination of all the lists accept files
> into the accept file. The hardlink caused all of those people to be added
> to the dist list and begin to get messages.
>
> The hardlink has since been removed. I'm sorry for the extra
> messages and subscriptions.
>
> Some of you are subscribed at old addresses (i found one of my
> old addresses subscribed too). If you need help please drop me a note
> saying juniper-nsp in the subject line and if possible include domain-name
> and username combinations that you used and I will edit the file and
> remove you.
>
> I think i've cleaned up all the cases where
> jared@nether.net and jared@NETHER.net (for example) are subscribed.
>
> Once again, please accept my apologies.
>
> - Jared
>
> --
> Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net
> clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.



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