(ATM)list Problems?, and astro question.

[seront@seism1.ess.sunysb.edu (Bernard Seront)]

At 10:14 PM 10/17/95 +1000, Steve Lee wrote:

>The new ATM mail server sends out the messages as if they came from
>individuals rather than the list.
>...

Actually I find this not that bad: if I make "reply", I send a reply to the 
sender of the message. To answer to the list I have to make a "reply to all", 
this feature help reducing the amount of (private) traffic on the list. I know 
this "reply to all" doesn't work in the same way for all the email readers. 
This is a common problem with almost every list I subscribe to (people send 
private mail to the list, or people complain not being able to reply to the 
list).

>...
>I thought that the comment about the missing "(ATM)" in the subject
>line was one that users could easily deal with, and with more care
>(by me, at any rate) so can this problem.

This comment makes message way easier to read, especially when you receive lots 
of messages every day, and subscribe to lots of lists. I vote to put it again 
(if possible not all list servers can do that)

>  But related to this is that
>every post I make, a dozen "undeliverable mail" messages come back from
>all the full mail accounts and dead servers.  I feel that those making
>posts shouldn't see these;

There should be a field in the header named "errors-to:name@address" or 
something similar to avoid this problem. It should be possible to configure the 
list server for that.

>
>What say others?  Should this be modified?
>
Yes if possible. But don't blame (I am not) the maintainer of the list, these 
guys do a great job, i wouldn't be involved with such a charge.

Now for an ATM question: I got two 6" mirrors from surplus. Unfortunately they 
are F/D < 3! (unless i made a mistake, but I was so surprised i checked 
everything a few times). Is there any astronomical use for that, or do i just 
use them as blanks (they are in pretty good shape, so this is a bit stupid). 
Any idea? (If someone has some use for that let me know).

Bernard