Well, when BITNET/EARN was around sites got the LISTSERV program as
part of the package.  It was just "there" and some of the sites handed
out lists to anyone who asked for them with the caveat of no support
from the site administrator as the things were considered of little
importance, more a pest than anything else.

Not a few of the lists ran into trouble because the "owner" didn't realize
it might be work, just neat to set up all these lists (some had 10, 20, 30
lists all with one 'owner' and mail to the "owner" didn't bounce but none
was ever answered, and mail to the site administrators met the same fate).

Kinda like what you get from some postmasters at some sites when trying
to resolve a list mail delivery problem at their sites: total silence.

Douglas


On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Winship <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Some site aministrators wish the
> > lists would go away and won't help much, if at all. You cannot assume
> all
> > site administrators know what you are talking about, nor that they know
> > what to do about it if they do (you many have explain procedural details
> > before they can do what they freely acknowledge should be done).
>
> Why are they running a list server then?
>
> (get the idea I don't have much use for the administrators you describe
> above?)
>
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