I'll explain this just once, and it's the last thing I'm going to say
on the topic.
Majordomo was originally conceived and written to support the SAGE
working group mailing lists. SAGE is an organization created to
promote system administration as a profession. When the organization
was founded, the charter members (of which I was one) wanted 17
mailing lists for various working groups to discuss various topics
(publicity for the organization, sponsoring conferences, sponsoring
online activities, and so forth). The groups were expected to be
small and to operate as sort of "online committees". I expected that
the members of each working group would probably want to be able to
find out who else was in the working group. Therefore, I included the
"who" command.
Clearly this is not appropriate for all mailing lists, but Majordomo
was written SPECIFICLY to support the SAGE lists; the fact that I
released it to the public was secondary and coincidental, and I sure
regret it some days when I have to spend valuable time responding to
crap like this.
-Brent
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