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[Shaun D. Mullen]

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This is precisely the kind of message might piss off well meaning people
like Brett and Dan.  That is not my intention, but I cannot resist
making an observation:

I left the q-list two years ago because I was unable to handle the email
traffic.  It took weeks to unsubscribe, apparently because of
inadequacies in the list server software.  Dan finally had to manually
delist me.  Kind of like rolling your old Audi Fox down a hill and
popping it into second gear to try to start it.

I rejoined the list a few days ago.  After signing onto the q-list and
being given a confirmation number, I was further dismayed when my
automatic e-mail reply was rejected because of an allegedly invalid
confirmation number -- the very number I had been assigned.  Kind of
like rolling your old Fox down a hill and popping it into second gear to
try to start it, but it doesn't want to start and you have to push it
back up the hill.

And so after three days on the list, there already have been two
blackouts of some duration.  Times change, but the q-list it seems to
still be caught in old Fox limbo.  Do I really care that it is?  No,
because the reparte and exchange of information is much more important
than the technical gliches.  But would anyone like to explain why we're
Foxing and not A8ing?  And is there something we can do as a group,
whether passing the hat or whatever, to get the list out of the last
century?

-- Shaun Mullen

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