IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

From: Jay West <west_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Thu Feb 3 16:30:29 2000

I can't believe I heard someone say just go back to the old software. With
the level of expertise of the people on this list, I should *NOT* have to
say the following, but I'm apparently going to have to - PLEASE READ THIS:

Majordomo is perfectly capable of making the list work just the way it
always did. Period. It is not an issue of the list software forcing the
configuration this way. It is not an issue with the host system. It is
simply a configuration issue which can be easily changed. It can be done any
way the folks here want it done and will work just as well as it always did.

The problem I'm having is this: I am a relative newcomer to this list (about
the last 12 months perhaps). I was not around when this list was started. As
such, I have no knowledge as to if this list is owned by Derek and thus he
has total sayso or if everything was always done by group concensus or what.
I assumed (perhaps incorrectly - to this date I still have no idea if this
is correct or not) that Derek ran the list. Please imagine my position.
Everyone is saying do it one way or another and I don't know if I'm supposed
to go with whatever Derek says or if I'm supposed to be listening and
counting votes. I'm stuck in the middle because a fair number of folks
aren't happy. I haven't received any email from Derek for several days so I
don't know what should be done. I CAN do whatever should be done but SOMEONE
has to tell me definitively what to do.

My personal preference at this point is to change the configuration so that
it works as it did on u.washington.edu. and we can always discuss the merits
of doing it a different way later. That would be easy to do and I can do it
right now. But there's the rub - if I go do that right now and make the
reply-to stuff work the way it did am I stepping on Derek's toes? Or am I
ignoring the will of the group? I would greatly appreciate it if someone
could just authoritatively say "do it this way". I offered to do this free
of charge and I have no problem with that at all. I just don't know who to
listen to. Somebody educate me on this please.

Jay West
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 16:30:29 GMT