On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jane Gibson wrote:
> Please could you send me instructions for adding a colleague to the mailing
> list.
As far as I understand the Mailbase system, I am the only person who can
add or remove third parties, as Mailbase requires the e-mail address of
anyone else to be exactly the same as the address given in the instruction.
I think this is a deliberate feature, to avoid the possibility of
hundreds of names being added by a mischievous prankster, as indeed
happened on one occasion to the adam-news list in Tony Gill's days as
listowner of that*. The list was then flooded with ever more offensive
messages from those who had been unwittingly subscribed, all students at
a US university.
Names and e-mail addresses of third parties can be submitted to myself as
listowner, and I will endeavour to subscribe them as soon as possible.
* Tony was also founder and first listowner of the MCG list, for which I
think we should honour him with lifetime honorary membership.
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Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer
http://www2.scran.ac.uk/staff/ianm/
"Why can't I be different and original... like everybody else?"
V. Stanshall
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