Re: Insulin pumpers headers

POP wrote:

> Please read the description references for what 'confirmed
> subscriptions' are.  You don't sound as though you've read them
> at all?

Try to understand where the 'disconnect' is here -- and this is based on
some assumptions, which are probably valid.

Majordomo is the listserv software.  It actually doesn't handle any
mail, but it sets up the instructions for some mail server software.

Patty is not the listserv software majordomo 'manager' -- which is
Michael Robinton and perhaps others.

Majordomo was designed to be remotely administered by 'others' who have
no access to the server or the server's software or the server's
software's listserv software majordomo.  This remote administration can
be done by email -- or if implemented by a web manager called MajorCool.

Michael Robinton and Mary Jean Renstrom wrote up a very very detail set
of instructions to guide the non-tech volunteers about how to
communicate by email with the majordomo software.  They actually may not
even know the majordomo software's name or anything about its
configuration.

Patty is one of the several volunteers who administers for the mailing
lists by this email correspondence and its numerous webpages of
guidelines for how to do so.

We have determined that majordomo should be configured for optin
confirmation.  Patty and the other volunteers have no control over that,
they only can control what they can administer to by email.

The necessary reconfiguration would have to be done by Michael, and
following that reconfiguration, some adjustment to the pages of
guidelines which were written in 1999.  It is possible that the
majordomo version is of an old vintage.  It is possible that the old
majordomo is not so configurable.  Majordomo's 'evolution' is described
at the GreatCircle website -- in which the different versions may be
incompatible with different versions of the Perl script and similar
tediums.

Patty ran into a snag when the list's server managed to get itself onto
the SCbl.  We've never seen the evidence, we only know what Patty told
us had been told to her admin which had been told by covad the notify
for the IP.

Currently the headers do not parse to name the server, for whatever
reason and significance that is at this point.

The admin thinks it would be very difficult to reconfigure the majordomo
or the majordomo plus the guidelines for the remote administration
process.  Ric doesn't think so.  I'm not sure -- but it surely would
require the motivation of Michael the majordomo admin or similar to do
so because of the necessity to rewrite the guidelines a little or a lot,
besides the majordomo reconfig.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin