--On Saturday, May 17, 2003 4:09 PM -0400 David Whitehurst <dlwhitehurst@comcast.net> wrote:
I still get service unavailable? Any ideas?
And, why is no one answering this list today?
To which I reply:
Let me get this straight. You post a question to the list around 1pm on a Saturday, and three hours later you're complaining that no one has answered your question? And it's a question whose answer would be pretty obvious to anyone who actually knows something about how mail works?
Let me suggest a couple of things:
- Learn something more about how mail works before trying to install and run mailing list software.
- Read all the documentation that came with the Mailman distribution.
- Read the archives of the mailing list.
- See the Mailman FAQ at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py>.
- When asking questions on a free, volunteer's list, don't assume that people will spend all their time reading the list, waiting eagerly for the chance to answer your questions.
- Once you've done 1-4, and still not found an answer, when you do post a question to the list, give details about the environment in which you're working. Server hardware, OS, which MTA (and which version), even which version of Mailman you're working with. All of that info will let the helpful folks on this list help you solve your problem.
If you've been trying to install from RPMs, save yourself the trouble and install from source. My reading of this list suggests that the RPMs are almost always more trouble than they're worth.
Above all, remember that the people on this list who try to help you are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. They don't get paid for it. They don't even get much recognition. And (unlike me) they're mostly too polite to send out a note like this. As someone who mostly lurks on this list, your mail just got on my very last nerve. So don't take it (too) personally -- it could have been anyone who got to me today.
-- SteveSteve Burling <mailto:srb@umich.edu> University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910