[Mailman-Users] Re: mass delete
David Champion
dgc at uchicago.edu
Fri Jun 2 07:10:25 CEST 2000
On 2000.06.01, in <200006020224.TAA08619 at utopia.west.sun.com>,
"Dan Mick" <Dan.Mick at west.sun.com> wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but it's fair for a list admin not to know Unix,
>
> It may be fair, but it's a long way from optimal.
"Optimal" would be: everyone I ever deal with knows Unix at the same
level I do. Tell Mr McNealy that no matter how hard he dot-coms us, he
will not get a world full of Unix users, and -- surprise -- a lot of
those people who will never be Unix users have valid group
communication needs.
> > and it's
> > not fair to require personal dealings with the site administrator.
>
> For some number of exceptions, such personal dealings will always
> be required; now we're just dickering about frequency.
OK, that's true.
> I think it's much more common to "remove 5 bozos", and the
> web page allows that nicely.
As it happens, I disagree with that, too.
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-D. dgc at uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago
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