On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 00:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2004 09:55 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > > > Shortly after that, they set up a script at mandrake to kill > > > > bouncing addresses, so the two are linked, though it's funny > > > > that was the last post! > > > > > > > > It's a shame mandrake never re-subscribed themselves to the list > > > > after the big burp. > > > > > > I'm a little confused. What do you mean mandrake never > > > re-subscribed? > > > > The non-mandrake archives get the messages by being subscribed to > > the list. > > > > I may be jumping to conclusions, but when mandrake's newbie archive > > stopped at exactly the same time as a mass unsubbing, i had assumed > > the same of the mandrake archives. > > > > eric > > > Eric: > IIRC, you're right that the archives stopped being maintained simultaneously > with the mass unsubscribing. I just did a little more digging, and the expert > archives are not only current, but they appear to be complete. This was > definitely not the case the last time I checked early this year when there > were no updates of either archive beyond November 15, 2003. Somewhere along > the line, Mandrake seems to have corrected the problem with the expert > archives but the newbie list got missed in the shuffle. Curious. > > As for the subscription thing: Aren't they all part of the same company? Hell, > for all that I know, the servers are in the same room. > > -- cmg >
They are; Todd Lyons used to maintain them when he was working for MDK in the nutbar state. LX -- ************************************************ Trouble with sound? Dump Alsa with an upgrade to the best: get your free high quality OSS drivers at www.opensound.com Superior features, superior API, better support. ************************************************
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