On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 09:45:02PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> Since I just found out about the 11a release by accident, and noticed an
> announce forum appeared on the BBS, could you please include this announce
> list in your mailinglist-translator?

Thanks for the heads up, I added the 3 new lists I was missing:
Announcements, FAQ and For-Sale
See
http://empeg.merlins.org/
http://empeg.merlins.org/lists/listinfo/
to subscribe

(I have automatically subscribed people on the general list to the announce
list. If you wish to be on FAQ or For-Sale, you need to subscribe yourself.
In your case, since you weren't subscribed to general, you'll have to
subscribe to announcements yourself)

I have also used the opportunity to fix my perl script to cope with the new
date format that the BBS is now putting in the digest (if you ask me, it's a
step backwards, the date was better in the old version and now it's all
screwed up and non Y2K compliant. Thank god for Date::Manip), and to add
name and Email mappings for lots of new names and Emails.
I also took the time to hand fixed Emails that didn't resolve and I changed
unknown Emails to be in the empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org domain as some
subscribers were (rightfully) rejecting posts that came from the non
existent @empegbbs.tld domain

> I still find these web based fora extremely unwieldy. It takes me about
> 20 seconds to wade through a list of 30 threads with 40 messages each on
> my mailreader. On the webbased forum it takes me at least 5 minutes to do
> the same, and even that can be multiplied tenfold when there is
> net-congestion.

I couldn't agree more, but it seems that some others disagree :-)

Marc

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