Re: Insulin pumpers headers

Tim McGraw wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Tim McGraw wrote:
>>
>>> Do the headers hint at what list software is being used?
>>
>> My gut and some other findings like where Michael A. Robinton
>> converses are causing me to lean toward believing the software is
>> Majordomo http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
>
> If you are correct then someone /is/ lying.
>
> The link you provided says one of the features of Majordomo is that it
> "Supports confirmation of subscriptions, to protect against forged
> subscription requests."

You like that 'lying' term more than I do.  Not only is it inflammatory,
it presumes facts not in evidence, including intent.

It is my understanding that majordomo supports confirmed optin by
default.

What I am not up to understanding is how the IP admin has chosen to
configure the 'pathways' of using majordomo and its incorporation of the
human oversight and profile process -- all of which is elaborated from
an 'external' administration by email description at the link I gave.

That is, I can read what a 'lay' non-IT-tech can do administratively
from the 'outside' of majordomo which name is not even mentioned in the
administrative pages.

What I am not familiar with is how to IT-tech configure the actual
software majordomo so as to both enable confirmed optin while
maintaining the current human oversight profile management descibed in
the length external email administration.

That is, said another way:

There is a very 'elaborate' external administration by email routine
established in 1999 for the IP volunteers by Michael and Mary Jean who
are familiar with the 'workings' of majordomo - which I am not - and
those elaborate external administrative routines result in the type of
non-confirmed optin which we are now dealing with, and with which the
human oversight business is met to the satisfaction of someone
adminstrative at IP.

What would need to happen would be a rewrite [who knows how much, a
little or a lot?] and retraining of the external administrative process
for the majordomo which would incorporate its presumed 'builtin'
confirmed optin character.  However -- what we presume is that the
*current* version of majordomo does confirmed optin by default.  We
don't know which version of majordomo we are dealing with here, and in
fact, it is currently a guess as to whether it is actually majordomo of
any version or not.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin