[boost] Serious breach of Netiquette

From: Peter Mancini (pmancini_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-19 13:08:49

A curse! May the jerk that put me on this new mailing list lay dying in the desert with vultures ripping at his soon to be dead flesh!  I had my settings set to view by web for a reason.  There are many of us who are duly pissed off at this breach of Netiquette and I expect and explanation and apology.  Only people who had selected individual mails should have been put on this list as is.  Those of us set to special messages or no messages should have just been sent a courtesy note.  I get too much mail to have to weed though this extra crap.  Thanks for nothing Beman Dawes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beman Dawes [SMTP:bdawes_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:57 PM
> To: Boost.org mailing list
> Subject: [boost] New mailing list active
> 
> When you get this message, it means the Boost mailing list is now active
> at 
> a new host (courtesy of the Open Systems Lab at Indiana University).
> 
> New email address for posting: boost_at_[hidden]
> 
> The web page for users is:
> 
> http://www.osl.iu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
> 
> All current Boost members have been subscribed to the new list. If you 
> received digests from YahooGroups, you should still get posting that 
> way. Everyone else has been set up to receive individule postings by 
> email. These were the only two options open to us for bulk subscriptions, 
> but other subscription options are available via the above link. At the 
> bottom of that page, enter your email address, then click on "Edit 
> Options".
> 
> It looks like the bulk subscription process created a password for each 
> subscriber. One of the choices on the web page you reach via "Edit
> Options" 
> is a button "Email my password to me". It has the obvious effect.
> 
> The list archives should be available at 
> http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/ (That doesn't seem to be
> working 
> at this precise instant, but it has been working OK, so hopefully the 
> problem will clear soon.)
> 
> There are still a lot of loose ends, but we are definitely making
> progress. 
> Thanks to Brian Barrett and Carl Daniel for all their efforts!
> 
> --Beman
> 
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