Leif,
> Just trying to determine which list you're speaking of. If it's this > one (TBUDL), the developers have absolutely nothing to do with it. I > created this list back in December of 1998 running entirely under Yes I read up on the history of this (these) lists and have downloaded some data on using the Bat for this. Thanks for all the info, most interesting, and previous to your message I fiddled with the sort order, to deal with the apparent order of the messages. I can well believe there's a lot of issues involved with list management - I deal with a few myself in fact. I just thought it odd that I didn't get the message in question and someone also mentioned messages that existed but never got onto the list, or returned to them, etc. Whether the message in my case was sent privately and then the person re-directed it back onto the list I don't know but I still never got it and have to query why. That was all. Apart from obvious failures at my pop3 server end, it's the first time I've known a list to fail to send me something. Not an exact science I grant you but still :) I tried following the leads to who ran the hardware and software for this list but came up against a brick wall really, so couldn't assess what was been used really. I was been aggressive about the list, however there is sufficient need now to move it to a NNTP server system if possible. Mailing lists are a pain at the best of times. Both for your management, as well as those of us with already busy inboxes. A general USENET NNTP group would be ideal and maybe leave the beta and more specialised lists on email. If you guys can host some NNTP server software locally, like this list server software then all the better, as it wouldn't then dependent on a good newsfeed. Just a thought. As to "Arpanet", I wasn't aware that in relation to email this 'hopping' wasn't that much these days compared to the likes of NNTP server feeds. I would still certainly suggest a better method of support than email servers, especially as the user base grows. As you well know, NNTP gives me the better 'right' to get what I want instead of getting it all, or none. I don't like 'digests' either. At least consider it, that's all. Charles Collinson -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
