Re: How to specify list owner address
Eric D. Williams (eric@infobro.com)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 18:36:00 -0500
I agree whole heartedly, the confusion stared in `91.
Eric Thomas wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Dec 1996 06:38:16 -0500 (EST) John C Klensin
> <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net> said:
>
> >Once upon a time, long before 200-line unix list manager
> >programs started being written, indeed, before there were unix
> >systems connected to the network on which such things could be
> >written and while mail was still running over NCP rather than
> >TCP (this was probably longer ago than some readers of this
> >list have been alive), almost all lists were managed by
> >hand and by human beings.
>
> Yes, I knew that.
Yeah, me too. And I have the knuckle bruises to prove it :)
> >Now, when those first (fairly primitive) automated list
> >managers came along, the obvious question was whether to bind
> >XYY-request to the automaton and some other address to the
> >[human] list owner/manager, or whether to reverse that binding,
>
> I guess it's my turn to give you a historical correction ;-) The first
> automated list manager came out in 1986. The second came out in 1991.
> It's not that the 200-liners were exploring a new area of mailing list
> usage and habits, they just wanted to do things differently from the way
> it had been done in the first 5 years of automated list management. I
> chose 1991 as the starting point for my historical commentary because
> this is when the confusion began.
>
> Eric
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