Re: [school-discuss] Re: Re: use on Dell

[Tom Adelstein <tadelste@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael - I've had my tongue between my teeth over this for a long
while. Karsten - if you want to preach about your Debian cult, please do
it elsewhere. Please - as a favor. Or get a column. 



On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:17 -0800, Michael Dean wrote:
> Karsten, instead of your usual destructive crap, which I suspect is
> based on my sharp riposte to your ideological outbursts, you could
> provide positive information, like which email address is I used.  I
> am not going to register all my addresses with you, that would be
> ridiculous.  Is there anything positive about you?  I suspect, if you
> are involved as a systems person with this list, there will be no end
> to your harrassment.  I asked a simple question, and I got
> straightforward repsonses from the more responsible members on the
> list.  You must go back to school and learn the difference between
> embarrassement and antagonizement. You antagonize.  No comment by you
> will ever embarrasse me because of who you are.  Obviously you have
> antagonized too many people in the past, and now you are relegated to
> an inane parttime position of little repute.  Maybe you should use
> less antogonistic remarks, try to be more helpful, less arrogant, less
> the Nazi/mafioso personality, with a more flexibility mentality toward
> service.  I am using Mozilla.
> Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:35:59PM -0500, Doug Loss (drloss@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >   
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:18 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > >     
> > > > on Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:53:44PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > >       
> > > > > NB:  Something seems to be rather markedly borked with your mail client
> > > > > as it's breaking headers.  This mail couldn't be filtered correctly to
> > > > > the mailing list.
> > > > >         
> > > > ...or the archives, FWIW.  Fix your config:
> > > > 
> > > >     http://archives.seul.org/schoolforge/discuss/Mar-2005/threads.html
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Peace.
> > > > 
> > > >       
> > > Here's the real problem.  To minimize spam getting onto this mailing
> > > list, majordomo only accepts posts from subscribed addresses.  I get all
> > > the bounces in my mailbox (and believe me, there are *hundreds* of
> > > bounces).  I look at each and every one.  The vast majority are throw-
> > > aways, but every once in a while I get a legitimate message for the list
> > > from a member trying to post from a non-subscribed address.  Those I
> > > manually approve and forward to the list.  Of those, I occasionally
> > > munge the header when my MUA has broken a header directive into multiple
> > > lines and I don't notice it.  That's what happened here.
> > >     
> > 
> > OK, that fits.  Dean's had other MUA wierdness in the past, I assumed
> > continuation of same.
> >  
> >   
> > > The solution?  Only post from the address you used to subscribe to the
> > > mailing list.  
> > >     
> > 
> > Quite.
> > 
> > My nazi-listmanager-from-hell response is to reject such posts and point
> > the miscreant at the subscriber page.  The alternative of subscribing
> > the person seems to lead to slightly greater levels of friction.  The
> > moreso if I don't set the additional address 'nomail'.
> > 
> >   
> > > Or change your subscribed addy to be the one you post from.  
> > >     
> > 
> > My advice:  subscribe all your likely addresses, set all but one to
> > 'nomail' if the list supports this.
> > 
> > 
> >   
> > > If you're not sure if this applies to you, I'll be happy to add an
> > > administrative line to each post from a non-subscribed addy that I
> > > forward, so the posters can know it applies to them.  But I hesitate
> > > to do that without the list's agreement because of the potential
> > > embarrassment it could create.
> > >     
> > 
> > There _are_ positive uses for embarassement.  I'm a prime example ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Peace.
> > 
> >   
> 
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