[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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> Josh King
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