At 7:32 PM +0900 on 11/23/09, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Bill Catambay writes: > 1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case) > 2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common > for those of us behind corporate firewalls) > 3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working > > However, even with these reasons, I wouldn't consider it a big deal, > especially if it's difficult to implement. After my list is working > again, I'll probably forget all about it. :) Note that I didn't deny use cases, I said it would be hard to implement usefully. For example, in the case that the mailman aliases aren't working, people *will* reply: "when do you expect it back up?" Because the mail system is currently not working, these will come through in a batch when things are fixed. What do to about them, especially since they're completely useless in this scenario? There is also the issue of what to put in From, and things like that. Will there be one-size-fits-all solution, or will the emergency poster have to set them appropriately? In the latter case, are there traps that the poster should avoid? Do the appropriate settings depend on other list settings (eg, reply-to munging)?
Well, for what it's worth, in *my* situation, all posts come to me, which I am currently just holding, including "when do you expect it back up" but really more of "thanks for all the work you do" messages. This is one of the reasons I like to moderate the list this way, as I do often get direct emails that were intended for the list, and this way I can read them and appropriately file them (i.e., they won't be going out to the list once the list is working).
As far as what to put in the FROM, I would say the name could be "Foo-list Emergency Notification", and in the FROM email would be the "foo-list" email (which, in my case, come to me), or perhaps just to the "foo-list-owner" email (which should work okay for other lists as well).
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