[Elecraft] List complaints - solution

[Bill W5WVO]

Fred, this mail reflector doesn't work the same way as a Yahoo group. A Yahoo 
or Google group is web-based, and all the message content resides on a web 
server. The content can also be emailed out to members if they choose. But 
because it's based on a server, a message can be deleted -- though the people 
who already received it via email have it, and it can't be "recalled."

A mail reflector like this one is run strictly using POP3 email protocol. This 
is a dynamic protocol in that the server doesn't keep a copy of the messages 
it gets; it receives them and promptly sends them back out to the subscribers, 
just like a repeater. There is no permanent server record of the messages.

Bill / W5WVO


Thom LaCosta wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Fred (FL) wrote:
>
>> b.  In the past, when I posted a dumb or worse,
>> posting - I emailed you, requesting that the post
>> be deleted.  Never got an answer?  Isn't there
>> some way - OWNERS OF LIST POSTS, could thereafter
>> delete their posts - like other known group
>> lists?  (ex - yahoo groups)?
>
> I believe this list is run on Mailman...and as such there is no way
> to "take back" a post....since as soon as you send it to the list, it
> goes back out...unless the list owner has set the list up to require
> his or her approval of every message, or only moderate certain list
> members.
>  > > Lets say a person
> posted a totally inappropriate > posting - and wanted it deleted. How do 
> they
>> do this, on this list?
>
> As far as I know, it can't be done.
>
>
> 73,Thom-k3hrn
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