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Reply To: | Forum on LISTSERV release 1.6 |
Date: | Tue, 29 May 90 16:54:15 EDT |
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I recently noticed that a number of Listserv lists which are local
re-distributions of the JHUVM list NIHGDE-L, appear in LISTSERV LISTS.
After checking the list headers for these lists, I found that they are
set-up as "confidential=no" lists and therefore globally known. I'm
pretty sure I know how this happened... The owner of JHU's own local
re-distribution mentioned that he had helped other people set-up
their lists. Since he had changed our local list to "conf=no", I'm
fairly certain that he'd suggest that others do the same. (Our list
has been changed back to "conf=service".) I'm going to contact the
people that own those lists and let them know that there is no need
to make their lists global (regardless of what they might have heard
previously). The reason that I'm posting to this list is that the
situation raises several questions. Aside from the fact that Listserv
can't direct people to the closest list (since it doesn't know that
the eight or so local lists all really deliver the same material),
can any other problems arise? This case is particularly bad since
two lists share the same name (NIHGUIDE), and two other lists share
the same "network wide name" 'NIH-GUIDE'. None of the lists are
peered. Aside from being confusing in general, does this sort of
thing have the potential to create any serious problems? I've
appended the relevant sections of LISTSERV LISTS.
-jj
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'NIH-GUIDE' NIHGUIDE@TCSVM NIH Guide List (TCSVM)
NIHGGC-L@UBVM NIH Grants and Contracts Distribution List
'NIHDOC-L' NIHDOC-L@LSUVM NIH Guide List (LSUVM)
NIH-L NIH-L@WSUVM1 WSU OGRD NIH Redistribution List
NIHGDE-L NIHGDE-L@JHUVM NIH Guide Primary Distribution
NIHGUIDE NIHGUIDE@UMAB NIH Listing of Available Grants and Contracts
NIHGUIDE@UWAVM NIH Guide U of Washington Distribution
UNM-NIH UNM-NIH@UNMVM UNM-NIH - UNM National Institutes of Health
WUNIHG-L WUNIHG-L@WUVMD Washington University NIH Guide Distribution
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