Re: [MDaemon@kilroy-mail.dyndns.org: Permanent Delivery Failure]
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:08:04PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:02:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:37:49AM +0000, Lazarus Long wrote:
> > > Okay, now what? Does this mean the maintainer did not receive this?
> > > Hmmm. I'll cc this to -devel, where someone will hopefully know.
> >
> > I think this has something to do with BenC having to manually recover from
> > the FUBAR that was perpetrated on the lists Sunday.
> >
> > (Details: somebody -- and nobody has fessed up yet, to my knowledge,
> > decided to make some of the mailing lists moderated [GOOD], but in changing
> > the configuration for one (or a few lists), they managed to moderate EVERY
> > list except, apparently, -changes and -bugs-dist. [BAD] So 18 to 24 hours'
>
> As an aside, this is easy to do with smartlist, which by default
> stores the configuration files per-list, but as symlinks to each
> other. So change one, you change them all, unless you were aware of
> this feature....
Actually, this is an older version of smartlist, which uses hardlinks, so it
is even harder to notice.
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