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1 total messages Started by Roger Key Thu, 27 Oct 1994 15:57
Re: Admiistrative problem
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Author: Roger Key
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 15:57
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>
> Dave
> Could you send a note to those you delete?
> Please and thank you.
> Bruce A. Seiger
> bseiger@igc.apc.org
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Hello all,
>
> I have good news and bad news.  The good news is physhare is
> prospering.
> The bad news is the number of users and traffic is causing an
> administrative
> problem for me.  We have approximately 250 members.  Sometimes
> people
> subscribe and do not keep up with their mail.  When the disk
> allocation on
> thier host machine is reach, physhare messages are rejected.
> Every time a
> message is rejected, I get the message.  The listserv program
> tries to
> resend these messages which sends more mail to my mailbox.  Then
> we have
> Internet nodes which go down resultingin more returned messages
> to my
> mailbox.  I am now getting 50-100 of these messages daily.
>
> Starting this week I will delete users when I begin to receive
> error
> messages.  Please don't take this as a sign you are unwelcome.
> If you are
> deleted for some reason, just resubscribe to the list when your
> problem is
> corrected.
>
> I'm sure you will know something is wrong if you go a week or two
> without a
> physhare message.
>
> Dave Popp
> list owner
>
Dave,

I think you're being too nice.  I'm on another listserv list with
over 3700 subscribers, and there it is all done automatically -
deleting, I mean.  It is roots-l at vm1.nodak.edu.  With a list
that big, auto deletions are about the only solution as I see it...
no problem doing that here either, as long as all know it will
happen....

they also have a nice archiving/searching/retrieving service set up
for all messages that cross the list...  My own opinion is that the
same thing should be done for all the physics stuff, physlrnr, sais-l,
phys-l, phys-stu, tap-l and so on, but I don't know the details of
setting such a thing up ....

just my 2 cents:

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