Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!balkan!wrangler!ssbn!bill From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr Subject: Re: Introduction, hello! Summary: found the culprit! Message-ID: <1914@ssbn.WLK.COM> Date: 30 Nov 90 03:20:49 GMT References: <1910@ssbn.WLK.COM> Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 51 In article <1910@ssbn.WLK.COM>, I wrote: > Apologies for this, this was a mail message to the NCR Tower mailing I was apologizing because a mailing list administriviae article got into comp.sys.ncr somehow, that was not my intent. I tracked the path back and it came from emory!wa4mei!holos0!Bill, so it looks like a holos0 gateway grabbed my name and posted it as news. > list that I just inherited from Greg Hackney. I shouldn't have been > gatewayed into comp.sys.ncr, but it was somehow. I tried to cancel > it, but it's got a gatech Message-ID. Please bear with me as I work I've completely revamped the mechanism and there will be neither news articles duplicated as a result of the mailing list, nor mail messages duplicated to the list by the gateway software here. Everything happens, mail notes get gatewayed to sys.ncr and sys.ncr gets mailed _once_. If there are other sites out there trying to do the same thing, i.e. gateway mailing list mail to comp.sys.ncr, PLEASE STOP. Many of the people on the mailing list are overseas and pay premium prices for their email, let's not give them a double dose/cost. If my mechanism doesn't suit you, let's work it out in email, I'm trying to help. There is an idiosyncracy that sys.ncr folk need to be aware of. As I mentioned, a whole lot of these folks are overseas, so let's be considerate of their communication expenses. Each mailed submission gatewayed into comp.sys.ncr has a line that reads Resender: tower@wrangler.WLK.COM (NCR Tower mailing list) You can't miss it, it's right after the "Lines:" line :-( Please be aware that if you think that you're sending email to the article's author, you might, but please be careful. If you send mail to the gateway address you will propagate to the entire mailing list as well as posting an article to comp.sys.ncr. If you want that broad a distribution, please just follow up and it will get to the mailing list. If you want to email the author, please be sure that your reply address points to only that address. In particular, if you see a site named dunsel in your reply address I can assure you it will not work. That site name is the one I use to keep them and you from getting double doses. Sorry to consume so much bandwidth in such a short time, but I need some help. If anyone knows that they are helping, it would be a big help if you'd stop helping. The gateway is pretty reliable but it operates on the assumption that it's the only gateway. If your site duplicates and re-posts, so will mine, again, again, and again until one of us intervenes manually. Fortunately, Pipe Creek is pretty far out in the sticks so things don't happen all that fast :-) Thanks for your patience and support. -- Bill Kennedy usenet {att,cs.utexas.edu,pyramid!daver}!ssbn.wlk.com!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM or attmail!ssbn!bill