We now have access to our mailing list thanks to Dave.
Roughly a third of the email addresses are false because users didn't replace
the default they were assigned with their real email addresses. This is a
problem that Dave is addressing in the next release of Yapp.
From the yapp conference yesterday:
Topic 44 of 45: 'Austen conference at Spring'
Response 3 of 4: Henry (
churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) Tue, Jan 28, 1997
(11:39) 5 lines
A lot of the e-mail addresses for web users at our site are bogus,
because the default choice that's presented to them is the
concatenation of:
The user name they're choosing to be known as here + "@"
+ the result of running reverse DNS lookup on the IP address
they're coming in from
There probably isn't any better way to construct such a default,
but unfortunately an e-mail address constructed according to this
procedure will be bogus in many cases, and a lot of people don't
bother to edit the default...
So the result is that there's a lot of bogus pseudo-addresses of
the general type
"
MickJagger@dial-in-ppp42-9.custmax.ms.uu.net", or
whatever...
Response 4 of 4: Dave Thaler (
thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us) Tue, Jan 28,
1997 (19:20) 18 lines
This is the purpose of the "Participants" button which should be at
the top of the page of the list of topics in the conference. By default,
this shows the login, last time on, and full name (but not email
address) of the participant. A host can change this by putting a command in
the conference rc file which redefines the "partmsg" variable to look
like anything you want. For example,
def partmsg '%10v %o %20u %{email}'
will show the login, last time on, full name, and email address.
If you just want a list of email addresses of conference members
yourself, you could generate this in Unix and save it to a file from in Yapp
with:
def partmsg '%{email}'
participants > filename
-Dave