Last week I learned more about pairlist’s mailman than I wanted to.  Written by unix geeks, the documentation is “virtual” and they don’t even call things what would make sense.  But the price is right so I am not complaining.

 Anyway the flag that doesn’t allow list members’ mail to go out somehow got unchecked (whichever flag that may be…) and when a subscriber replied to the official mail to remind me to cover a story about 800 of my best friends got it.

I got IMs and e-mail all day, though we only lost one subscriber to the maillist (and we didn’t necessarily lose her as a reader of the Star).  The sender got a lot of e-mail that day telling her that the recipients weren’t me.

So I sent an apology in the next official mail to the list and it seems to have blown over.  But OH BOY did I NOT forget to cover that meeting!