From: John Van Essen (vanes002@umn.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 02:38:55 CST
I have a few questions/observations:
1) Who receives email sent to hypermail-bugs@hypermail.org?
I sent in a bug report and a patch on Jan 13 and have not yet
gotten a reply. I originally wasn't going to bother this list
with it, but I guess that's the procedure?
2) What happens to email sent to hypermail@hypermail.org (or to
hypermail@landfield.com) when one is not a member of the list?
I sent two messages about the screwed up web archives and they
never did appear - even in the unix mailbox files.
The site page for the hypermail mailing list should state that
email from non-subscribers is thrown away as an anti-spam measure
if that is indeed what is happening.
Now to the main topic...
3) The web-based hypermail mailing list archives are messed up.
The January 2000 archive has only had one message all month.
This does not speak too well for the 'product' when it's own
home-site usage is messed up. ;-D
The problem seems to be caused by the unix mailing list being named
hypermail.10001 instead of hypermail.0001 (you really should be using
4-digit years, eh? :D). Check your scripts that automate the
adding of hypermail list messages to the web-based archives.
The 'Mailing List Archives' link in the /hypermail/ menu frame
refers to /hypermail/archives.html, which does not have an up-to-date
list of archive months. But the 'About This List' link in the index
pages for each month points to /hypermail/mail-archive/ which is more
up to date. Use that for the 'Mailing List Archives' link and throw
away the archive.html file?
A reminder needs to be emailed to the webmaster on the first of each
month to add a link for that month to the /hypermail/mail-archive/
table of contents. February isn't there yet.
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John Van Essen <vanes002@tc.umn.edu> <jve@gamers.org>