Re: Insulin pumpers headers

On Tue, 2 May 2006 07:25:31 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

> 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.

I would like to know, however, where Ric got his information about the
majordomo guidelines.  I've searched the web and got some limited
information about majordomo systems, but nothing that appeared to be as
concise as what Ric had.  I would love to read it, granted I may not
understand a lot of it, but I still would like to be able to more
familiarize myself with the process.   

Patty