Re: Re(2): [cobalt-users] [Raq3] Mailing Lists setup - Majordomo

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> > You can change those names to someother address, save the file and
> > then type newaliases
> 
> Thom,
> Any way to do this through email commands?

Nope, not that I know of...but of course if Cobalt had of implimented the
gui differently.......but, you know.

I am beginning to understand the Cobalt Logic.....

The people who buy a Cobalt are appliance operators, therefore:
    they do not know about Linux and applications,
    they should not learn about Linux and applications
    (as they will no longer be appliance operators)
    It Follows, then;
    The users on a Cobalt appliance know less than the owner,
    Therefore, they have even less need to know about or use
    Linux and applications.

Once you understand the above, all questions about "How come on most(many,
some, a number of)other servers you can(can't, might, should, should not)
attempt(perform, list, modify, update, delete)certain operations which
may(may not, should be, should not be)otherwise be accomplish(prohibited).

Of course the normal "refer to the Knowledge Base or look in the arcives"
may (or may not) apply.

I feel so much better now that I have a firm starting point for problem
solving.

> Normal site user admins who don't have telnet would need to do this through
> email commands, so that's why I'm asking.
Don't think it works that way with majordomo...unless, of course someone
had written a nifty script that added the name of the site administrator
who did create the mailing list...but that would fly in the face of the
logic listed above.

So, if you take OFF your appliance operator hat, you can telnet in and
make the changes.

Or, since the script that does it on our boxes doesn't work as one would
expect(hope), some enterprizing script writer could write a script that
would copy a copy of aliases.majordomo that you made on your PC and
uploaded into the correct directory.

I'll bet ya it could also be done with cron (yet another of those
non-appliance operator functions).

Let's see....how many extra steps was that?  Amazing how much work it
takes to protect ourselves from the appliance operator protection.

Thom
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