On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:27:54PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> See RFC 2142, which codifies this (not that I completely agree with it):
>
> 6. MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION MAILBOX
>
> [...]
>
> there MUST be the administrative mailbox name:
>
> <LIST-REQUEST@DOMAIN>
I'm as delighted to see this as I dismayed by the number of
new mailing lists I've seen announced whose only means of
subscribing/unsubscribing is through a web interface.
Not that having a web interface is bad; but ONLY having a web
interface IS bad, because it locks out the zillions of people, who,
for one reason or another (ranging from software support to firewalls
to handicaps to bandwidth) have access to mail but not to the web.
Not surprisingly, most of these lists seem to be run by relative
newbies who think "Internet == web" and to whom the concept that
"mailing lists should be accessible via mail" is foreign.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to cut-and-paste that excerpt
into a number of pending messages. ;-)
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org
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