Mood:  irritated

If you are interested in joining a list discussing feminist science fiction, don't join the Feminist Sci Fi (feministSF@lists.feministSF.net) carried by http://feministsf.org/. The site for the group is fine, and useful, but the main list is poorly managed by people who seem not to understand the very technology they're administrating.

They recently had to change addresses after encountering trouble with autoreplies.

Autoreplies (you know, the messages that read, "So and So will be out of the office through Friday; for assistance, please contact Such and Such at xxx.xxxx") are generally not a handling problem for the rest of us who have been list admins over the years (including, ahem, myself). Each list mechanism has its own way of dealing with autoreplies, which is what the list handler for this group should have engaged.

Now, list mistress Leanne Phillips might be an otherwise lovely individual, but her approach to fixing a problem which is largely one of administration and not one of membership is rather extreme: she wants to ban all members using autoreplies. Oh, and she called people who use autoreplies "megalomaniacs."

Huh?

Suffice it to say, I unsubscribed.

It wasn't that great a list anyway, just an Internet book discussion group, mostly. Where I live, we can talk about books in person. And we do. All sorts of books. Even feminist SF books!

Oh, and PS: It's probably useful to note that they've never received an autoreply from me!

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