Posting to Micronet or MAGNet from your @berkeley.edu address

   If you have a UCLink account, you can now use a simpler, shorter
"@berkeley.edu" address as an alternative to your UCLink email
address. To learn more about @berkeley.edu addresses, please see:

   http://bert.berkeley.edu/calmail/help/faqs.html#berkeley-addressing

   If you're currently subscribed to the Micronet or MAGNet mailing
list from your UCLink address, but you sent a message to one of those
lists from your alternative "@berkeley.edu" address, your message was
"bounced" to the list administrator, rather than being posted to the
list itself.

   This occurred because the Micronet and MAGNet lists are configured
to allow you to post only from your subscribed address. This was a
change made in late October 2002 to keep a deluge of spam out of
those lists. (For that same reason, posting to many other campus
mailing lists is similarly restricted.)

   As a work-around, if you're currently subscribed to the Micronet or
MAGNet list from a UCLink email address, I've taken the liberty of
also subscribing you to a parallel, 'posters-only' list at your
corresponding "@berkeley.edu" address. These subscription requests
are slowly being processed by majordomo and should be completed soon.
You will also receive one or two messages notifying you when this
occurs.

   What this means: if you're subscribed to either the Micronet or
MAGNet list, or both, using a UCLink address like
'yourusername@uclink[2|4].berkeley.edu', you can now also directly
post to that list (or lists) from 'yourusername@berkeley.edu'. (You
won't receive any duplicate messages from either list as a result of
your additional subscription, or subscriptions, to the 'posters-only'
lists.)

   This is a one-time expedient, and isn't ideal, but hopefully it
will at least tide us over until a better solution is available.
When Socrates is moved to the CalMail system later this year, if it
is still necessary to do so, we can repeat this process for Socrates
subscribers to the Micronet and MAGNet lists.

At 11:36 -0800 2004-01-16, Tom Holub wrote (in a discussion of this
issue on the Webnet list):
>Maybe we can ask the people running listlink to try to make it less stupid
>about such things (for example, it could check CNAMEs before bouncing
>the mail--uclink, calmail, and berkeley.edu will all have the same IP).

   That's an excellent suggestion. To Tom (and all): do you have any
information about how this might be implemented, that we might pass
along to CalMail's administrators?

   Any changes of this type could necessarily only occur after
CalMail's mailing list functionality is moved off the old UCLink
cluster (aka "Listlink") to the new CalMail system. From what I
understand, there is a high probability of that move taking place
within the next several months ...

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

(administrator of the Micronet and MAGNet mailing lists)

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Received on Fri Jan 23 13:24:44 2004