LSMTP in your SERIALST mail ?? Birdie MacLennan 27 Feb 1996 03:54 UTC
Dear SERIALSTers, This is to report a bit of a technical quirk that some of you have begun to inquire about. The moderators have been ignoring "it" in the hope that "it" would quietly go away, but I got word this morning that "it" might be around for another week or another month. "It" is an odd and somewhat disconcerting bracketted appendage that is being automatically added to subject lines of messages leaving UVMVM (the machine that supports SERIALST) that are bound for the Internet. Some new mail routing software that is currently in test mode is the cause of what some (many?) of you are seeing as longer headers with the message: "[via LSMTP -see http://www.lsoft.com]" in the subject lines of messages. Some subscribers -- mostly those with BITNET accounts -- are probably not seeing this message (yet?) because BITNET mail is routed differently. So far, moderating the list from the local UVMVM/BITNET, account has been successful in preventing the bracketted message from being logged in the SERIALST archives. The moderators have no control over the appearance of this message and we do not, in any way approve or endorse the message that we think a great many subscribers are now seeing. In fact, we're rather hoping it will quietly disappear in the week(s) ahead. In the meantime we apologize for any confusion or inconvenience, and ask for your patience as systems personnel at the University of Vermont gather the data they need complete their testing. Additional information (for inquiring minds) follows below. Birdie MacLennan SERIALST Listowner/Moderator bmaclenn@uvmvm.uvm.edu University of Vermont bmaclenn@moose.uvm.edu ======================================================================= 43 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:50:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Ryder <jsr@elk.uvm.edu> To: bmaclenn@uvmvm.uvm.edu cc: Ann Ercelawn <ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu>, Marcia Tuttle <tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>, rstuart@esf.uvm.edu, intaucaj@uvmvm.uvm.edu Subject: the LSMTP/LSoft thing In order to reduce the email workload on UVMVM we have just installed a product called LSMTP from L-Soft International Inc. which runs on a Windows NT platform and handles Internet mail routing. This product in running is a trial mode and because of that is adding an extra message to the subject line of each message posting to your discussion list... [via LSMTP - see www.lsoft.com] We are sorry if this adds confusion to your postings, we should have warned you, but it is imperative that we test LSMTP to improve performance to DOSLIBR and other UVMVM systems. We want to use the trial version for a week and if it proves successful, we will install a permanent version without the extra message on the subject line. We started testing LSMTP on Wednesday 2/21 for an hour and during the day, Thursday and Friday. We shut it down for the weekend and just brought it back up today and plan to leave it up until next Monday morning. If you see any anomalies from your lists this week, or have any questions I'd be very interested in hearing from you. Thanks for your patience and understanding. John Ryder, Listserv manager, 656-1183 jsr@elk.uvm.edu