On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:54:26 -0400 Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But it's clearly been understood for well over a decade that one can
>expect to find an agent of *some* kind -- either human or software -- at
>that address,
No, it's not clearly been understood for well over a decade at all. For
one thing, over a decade ago there was exactly one mailing list manager
available, LISTSERV, and it did not sit at -request. Your Honour, I'm
afraid the first use of -request for the command address dates back to
somewhere around 93.
>LISTSERV is in non-compliance with the de facto standard -- mostly
>because it's *not* what you claim it to be
You claim to know the de facto standard better than I do, but you didn't
even know that 10 years ago LISTSERV was the only game in town. The
default setting for both Majordomo and LISTSERV is that the command
processor does not sit at -request (same with ListProc if I recall
correctly, at least the free version). Since these products probably
account for over 90% of mailing lists, I don't see how the de facto
standard could be the opposite, but hey, who am I to argue with a Supreme
Court judge?
>But I hope you aren't. And I'll certainly do my small part to try to
>make that a reality.
As far as I know, you've been advising people to use Majordomo rather
than LISTSERV from way before RFC2142. Either way, you are welcome to
further discredit the IETF process if you think this will benefit the
community.
Eric
