OT Re: Why won't my mail forward?

[Julian Field]

What I think would be the best idea (and may well be what you are already
thinking) is to announce, when needed, that a thread is being moved to the
OT list until it is resolved or further assistance from the main list is
required, at which point it is moved back to the main list. So it becomes
an ad hoc discussion forum that is used when needed, but questions still
start life on the main list. They are only moved when it is obvious there
is going to need to be a lot of OT discussion to resolve the issues. That
way no-one needs to regularly read the OT list unless they want to partake
in a particular discussion that has been moved there.

I mostly want to avoid people having to regularly read anything other than
the main list.

It would be really good if you could set up the mailing list software with
a filter that recognised messages whose subject doesn't start with "Re:"
(or any reasonable translations of that). It could then reply to the sender
that new discussions should not start there, as no-one may be reading it at
the time.

At 21:51 03/07/2003, you wrote:
>Would you be opposed to me creating a list for OT discussions and announcing
>it to the list?  The reason is that people like this Jody Cleveland could
>benefit from input from many people and we could keep it from cluttering the
>mail list.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:24 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: OT Re: Why won't my mail forward?
>
>
>It's only ever happened 3 or 4 times. I'm not convinced many people would
>read a list which doesn't have an aim except for being about everything
>except MailScanner.
>
>I believe this is still the right place for occasional OT discussions, and I
>don't think anyone minds (they don't complain to me anyway). Between us we
>have collected together a large number of very experienced and helpful mail
>admins, and I don't want to break that up at all as it is a major part of
>MailScanner's success. The list just needs the odd nudge once in a while,
>which is part of my job as list owner.
>
>At 21:10 03/07/2003, you wrote:
> >Seems like we run into this from time to time.  What would be the odds
> >you could setup an OT mailing list?  I can do it on one of my servers
> >if you want.  Then people that want to subscribe and assist people with
> >OT issues can stay in the loop and lend a hand where needed.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> >Behalf Of Julian Field
> >Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:11 PM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: OT Re: Why won't my mail forward?
> >
> >
> >This is really rather OT, and there have been 30 messages I have seen
> >in this thread so far.
> >
> >Any chance a few of you could take the investigation off-list please,
> >and just post to the list once you've got it sorted or you all run out
> >of ideas and need some extra input from others?
> >
> >At 21:03 03/07/2003, you wrote:
> > > > What is the IP of that other RH box?
> > >
> > >199.242.176.169
> > >
> > >Jody
> >
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