[UCIMC-Tech] forwarder for aware@anti-war.net ?
Stuart Levy
slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Fri Jul 3 09:50:42 CDT 2009
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:12:05PM -0500, Josh King wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I think the alias would be the easiest to set up for now. I would like to
> make it a proper list again at some point, but something was profoundly
> screwed up with it so I prefer to make it part of an upcoming mailman
> upgrade when its config can be wiped and reinstalled. Any addresses besides
> you and Randall I should put in the alias?
We can do a poll, but that should be OK to start with.
So we'd just write to imc-tech if we want to change the set of people
receiving aware at anti-war.net, right?
Randall, I hadn't asked you whether you wanted to be on that list --
is this OK? I was guessing so since we were both on the old one, I think.
> Stuart Levy wrote:
>> Hi. There used to be an e-mail list, aware at anti-war.net,
>> which went to a handful of people in AWARE -- it was intended to be
>> a first-contact point for the group. It hasn't worked in a couple of
>> years.
>> That address *had* been going to a chambana.net mailman list,
>> but was disabled since it was getting tons of spam and bogging down
>> mailman processing for other lists, if I understand right.
>> However we'd still like to have it as a contact point in some way.
>> It's on our business card, our web site, etc. and we don't have any
>> better address to use instead.
>> Could aware at anti-war.net be resuscitated in either of a couple of ways:
>> - If it were forwarded to the "aware" local account on (say) zeco,
>> could we use a local ~aware/.procmailrc file to do e-mail
>> distribution
>> (copying mail to the correct, and occasionally changing, handful of
>> people)
>> and filtering out the worst of the spam? This seems preferable to me
>> if it
>> wouldn't be too much of a burden. Or...
>> - alternative: just to hard-wire aware at anti-war.net mail
>> (maybe via /etc/aliases or whatever, on the mail server)
>> to some small set of people. Possibly me (e.g.
>> slevy at new.math.uiuc.edu)
>> and Randall Cotton, but we'd want to negotiate...
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>
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> Josh King
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