What is 'administrivia'?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

I've tried, unsuccessfully, to use Ekiga a few times.  I got Wengophone to
work once.  I know a lot of other people have had issues with Ekiga not
connecting to anything.  Maybe that's changed since Dapper, but I don't
know.  It didn't work for me with Feisty--that's when I tried Wengo.

On Dec 30, 2007 1:19 PM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com> wrote:

> My guess is the "Remove" on a single line.
> I can't say I have ever used Ekiga or Base.  However, if you say the cd
> comes with OpenOffice.org it should come with OpenOffice.org (what they
> ship with).
> -Bryan
>
> On Dec 30, 2007 10:22 AM, Evan <eapache at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There's nothing like that in it. In fact, here's what I sent out:
> >
> > I'm sure there have been long discussions on these before, but here are
> > my suggestions:
> >
> > Remove
> > -ekiga (very few people use voip, and most of those that do use skype.
> > leave it in the repos if you must, but it makes no sense to have it on the
> > cd)
> > -openoffice.org-base (the average desktop user rarely uses spreadsheets,
> > let alone a full-fledged db. again, leave it in the repos but not the cd)
> >
> > Removing these two saves at least 7.5MB (more if I missed some
> > no-longer-needed dependencies). Using this space we could include something
> > like GnuCash instead that a lot more of the average Joes would find useful.
> >
> > Anyways, just my two cents.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 30, 2007 10:12 AM, Neal McBurnett < neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 09:42:35AM -0500, Evan wrote:
> > > > I just sent an email to this list, and a few seconds later found out
> > > it had
> > > > been put on hold pending review because: "Message may contain
> > > administrivia"
> > > >
> > > > What???
> > >
> > > Often people who don't understand mailing lists send requests like
> > > "subscribe" or "help" to the entire list, rather than to the
> > > administrative address assocaited with the list.  So the software
> > > tries to filter that "administrivia" out so it doesn't spam the other
> > > subscribers.
> > >
> > > My guess would be to look for command-words like that, rephrase them
> > > and try again.
> > >
> > > Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> > >
> >
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