Well the big day's finally arrived. I promised when Sinister started that I would have all your babies and today I'm delivering. Yes Sinister is 9 months' old today and your babies are fair popping out. Ouch, it hurts. I expect flowers. Poor old Alex, who thought the list was knackered and sent a message three times - an explanation. In the "good" old days lots of people sent "administration commands" (like "unsubscribe") to the list - a common mistake, and one you can't entirely blame people for (well you can but the software should be better). People on the list got fed up with this. So I turned on a standard check for it in the software, which looks for things like "unsubscribe" and "help" and sends them just to the list admin her/himself - so now only *I* get to see them, and if in fact they're OK I "approve" them via email and send them on. Aren't I nice? Thing is - the checking is a little too keen and thought, because Alex said "HELP" at a strategic point, that he might be one of these pesky trouble-causers and so asked me to check first. And because I was being rushed to the Western General in the back of a taxi, screaming for morphine and wondering what to call my children, I wasn't around. So the moral to this tedious explanation is: a few (< 1%) or emails will get trapped and I will have to give the software a nod. If you'd rather I turned this off again (email me privately) then I'm happy to. I just noticed some people got pretty fed up with a lot of these unsubscribes going to the list (reminder: don't send them to sinister, send them to majordomo@majordomo.net!). [P.S. haha - I just had to approve THIS email] What else? Well I might change the whole list's addresses for email and WWW to something else - it makes in more portable in the future. So look out for changes on the website http://bee.home.ml.org/sinister :) and in the footer if I decide to - the old ones will of course still work for a bit but I'd prefer you to use the new. Another damn good reason is so that my email address can be something fun. Anyway I'll let you know if I decide to change it. honey@bee.ml.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------