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Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:35:27 GMT
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mattdm@/AvoidSpam/mattdm.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
How will you deal with non-LUGnet-valid users posting to mailing lists?

Silently ignore them.  (It's smart enough to silently reject messages
submitted though non- lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com gateways.)

So, if someone is on the crynwr lego robotics mailing list but hadn't
"introduced" themselves to LUGnet, their messages would just never appear
here? Hmmm. That seems an imperfect solution.


--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
 
(...) Correct. (...) Agreed, it's not perfect, but IMO, it would be unethical (and therefore it is simply not an option) to ever publish messages here from anyone who has not gone through the news posting setup and explicitly said they understand (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
 
(...) What if messages coming in from alternate e-mail gateways (addresses other than lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com -- i.e. mailing lists) had their headers modified slightly before posting, so that the 'From' line was set to the address of the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Silently ignore them. (It's smart enough to silently reject messages submitted though non- lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com gateways.) --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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