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Hi all, I have received reports, that news-by-mail was not entirely functional. According to the logs it appears, digests do get sent out, but I cannot easily identify if all subscribers do get updated with what they subscribed for. Can you please (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi all, this is in reply to all mails I received regarding news2mail subscriptions (i.e. newsgroup subscriptions as direct delivery via email - not digests, those seem to have worked all the time): I have found the error, repaired the script and (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1A7Bq.J9L@lugnet.com... (...) One issue I've had in the past with, as an example, has been posting to the lugnet.robotics newsgroup, and then getting spammed by the recipient whenever (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This is usually due to recipients not caring about the "reply-to" field. As a subscriber, you can select whether the posts you receive via email should include the original poster or rather the newsgroup-address in the reply-to field. The (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1B9D9.nvx@lugnet.com... (...) The problem is that I post via the web and don't want to receive ANY posts via email, I prefer the newsreader client to do that. (...) I strongly (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Okay, it appears I misunderstood you to that extent. Sorry about that. Then again, the issue is still, that mailing lists as a standard use the original From: address (which is you) but change the Reply-To field to the mailing list itself. I (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1Bv8v.I56@lugnet.com... (...) Actually since you're handling the mailing lists, why not consider changing things so that they better suit the current situation. What I mean is this: (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) In theory, that would be a way of handling things. In practice, this would overthrow the way mailing lists (not only LUGNET but in general) have handled header setting and reply behavior. I would not want to copy a well-known software firm in (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1DsE0.G5t@lugnet.com... (...) Unfortunately, you're causing IBs to become blacklisted for something you ultimately have responsibility for. One of your options would include going to (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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