FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

There are currently 770 people subscribed to the lyris list, 16 of which 
have subscribe dates of 11/22 or 11/23. All of the people who have 
reported problems were subscribed on these dates.  I'm not sure why these 
folks were subscribed, I can only say it must of had something to do with 
list conversion, and the freetds folks (including moi) had nothing to do 
with it. The interesting part is there were recently subscribed to the 
lyris list too.

I have unsubscribed everyone who has sent a message freetds-admin, but 
people must understand that it is a manual process and may take upto a day 
for me to get the mail and remove you.

As to Mr. Richard C. Pollock I believe he is removed, but he sent 43 
messages to the current 721 subscribers yielding a total of 31,433 emails, 
and indeed received more list email from himself than the rest of the list 
combined.  So, I have to laugh at complaints of us spamming him.  Grow up.

If you accidently got subscribed, first I apologize, again I have no idea 
how this happened.  Please use the web page to unsubscribe immediately or 
email freetds-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org and expect a delay of no more than 
24 hours.

Brian

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:24:03PM -0500, Dossy wrote:
> > On 2002.11.23, Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net> wrote:
> > > Any of those who have been accidentally subscribed to the list can
> > > follow these same steps to get themselves unsubscribed.
> 
> > In 2002, this "accidental subscription" is absolutely ridiculous.
> 
> > Can the list administrator /please/ set the list to require confirmation
> > before subscription to the list?
> 
> > If the list software doesn't support it ... get better list management
> > software.
> 
> It was a one-time batch import because the list was being moved from one
> piece of list management software to another.  Mailman is a
> best-of-breed mailing list server, but that doesn't help when the
> administrator overrides the confirmation requirement when importing.
> I'm not sure the responsible parties are even subscribed to the list.
> For the record, complaints should be sent to
> <freetds-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org>, as per the message headers.
> 
>