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From: tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: rejected mail (?) - Reporting GNU Mailing List Bugs
Message-ID: <8710151811.AA29886@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 13:45:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 13:45:43 1987
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This is aimed at list readers who are NOT familiar with the ARPAnet
conventions for mailing lists.  It's is also serving as a test of the
GNU lists.  Note that many comp.emacs readers meet the criteria in the
first sentence.

1) Reports concerning problems with a mailing list should go to the
request address for that list.  For the GNU Mailing Lists, these are
addresses of the form list-name-REQUEST@list-host.  Just insert
"-request" after the list name. For example:
	info-gnu-emacs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu
This convention is true for almost all mailing lists on the Internet
(though not many of the USENET/uucp mailing lists, and for technical
losses, most BITNET mailing lists)

It's a *RUDE* to bother a whole list, when you only need to inform the
list administrators.  Please don't waste 1000's of people time.  It
also wastes a lot of communication and computer resources.

2) Reports concerning mailing list problems with bad addresses other
than sub-list aliases reported on and by prep.ai.mit.edu continue to
interest us.  If the rejected address contains one of the characters
"@!%.", please mail the report to the -REQUEST address for that list.
If in doubt, mail it anyhow to the -REQUEST address for that list
{I've gotten good at scanning these fast ;-}.

Thanx -len