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Subject: 
Re: Badgering emails
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:11:10 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:42:36PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:59:45PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
It's STILL not the users' issue to solve.

Sorry, why not? I'm not clear on that really. If a user has a
malformed or malfunctioning mail, why isn't that the user's issue to
resolve?

...

Did that clear things up at all?

Not really, no. I agree that's the desired end state but that's not
what the server does now, is it? I'm asking about what should be
done NOW.

I thought I was answering what you asked...  And what hsould be done
NOW?  Since you are aware of the problem, just have one of the other
admins mail Kevin if need be - since it doesn't matter which admin the
official mail comes fron...

I'm talking about the general case. We've had several situations in the recent
past when mail from admins was not received (and no bounce was returned) which
led to difficulty, warnings not received, timeouts not properly started because
they weren't acknowledged, etc.



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  Re: Badgering emails
 
(...) Wow, I didn't know. In that case, a solution should certainly be found. In the meantime, a workaround would be to send two copies of the email from two admins, maybe? The chance both will fail are much smaller... And that doesn't require any (...) (20 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Badgering emails
 
(...) I thought I was answering what you asked... And what hsould be done NOW? Since you are aware of the problem, just have one of the other admins mail Kevin if need be - since it doesn't matter which admin the official mail comes fron... (20 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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