[Wylug-admin] who gets wylug at wylug.org.uk ...

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2008, at 17:49, Mark P. Conmy wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>>> On 23 Jul 2008, at 13:04, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The expansion of wylug at wylug.org.uk is done in a .forward file on 
>>>> lug.org.uk
>>> 
>>> it expanded to my and wylug at comp.leeds.ac.uk - which presumably expanded
>>> to include Jim.  I've now removed the leeds.ac.uk address.
>> 
>> Yes - expanded to be Jim and Dave (Fisher) (via account wylinux which
>> controls the webpages).
>
> Is that account (or rather the mail forward) controlled/accessible just by 
> you or can others get at it?

Whoever has access to the account can access the control file.

It's just a file:

     /vol/mail/lists/wylug.mail

which contains email addresses, one per line.

> Actually putting the mail through several forwarding stages seems silly, so I 
> suggest we just set the forwarding on the lug.org.uk box and do not have the 
> subsequent stage.

Seems fair.

> So that leaves us with the following options:-
>
> 1. Add one or more people to the alias to pick up mail to wylug
>    and deal with it.
>
> 2. Push wylug mail into the wylug-admin list (much of the content
>    would be junked before hitting the list as its likely to be spam
>    and moderated out).  We just need to make sure that relevant
>    stuff is actually acted on rather than just passing by.
>
> I think we do need at least one other person with lug.org.uk access
> since I'm obviously not as responsive on this as people would like,
> and I tend to have less involvement with wylug now (not saying I
> want to be replaced completely, but a backstop would be good).

I'm afraid I'm not volunteering either.

Mark