Re: List silence

[Dorothy Day <day>]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Judy Evans wrote:

> I am posting this to Mary as well in case I can't reach the
> List: there may be a problem with the server, or _I_ may have
> a problem with it!
>
> Yesterday I posted to the List in reply to Tom Craven
> and the post bounced -- after some while -- with a
> "too many hops" error message.  I checked full header
> but couldn't see anything odd, though the post had been
> through a fair number of gateways.
>
> I reposted, it bounced; same error message.  But this time
> full header showed that the "hops" were occurring at tau:
> the post was moving from point A there to point B, back to
> A, and so on and on.
>
> This is a retry but also I thought I'd alert list members
> in case the problem is more general.
>

Judy,

I don't know how much trouble tau is having, but messages do seem to be
coming through, including yours of yesterday. I suspect Mary's right,
that end of term in both UK and US has us preoccupied while we wait for
Godot/Win.

> PS      Last time I tried to go nomail the serv told me I wasn't
> a member...
>
> PS to Mary: my options aren't the same as yours: that's why
> I couldn't work out how you got the list membership numbers.
>

I'm not aware of such settings in our version of Pine, but you can
always send the command "review notabene" to Listserv
--that will get you the full list of names currently subscribed
(including yourself at the address from which you subscribed,
jae2, which may help you change your listing to your
current altered specifications). The report I just got back indicates a
membership of 341, plus 5 "hidden" listings.  Since some persons
subscribe from more than one address, that includes some inflation of
the true number of individual members.

        Cheers from chilly Bloomington,
        Dorothy

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Dorothy Day
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
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        "He also surfs who only sits and waits."