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Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:02:50 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMnospam.ORG
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> and the abundance of list exploders.  I wonder how this scenario differs from
> the reverse situation, where a mailing list would have to reject posts coming
> from people -it- doesn't recognize.  Because, if, say, lego-robotics@crynwr.com

Very true. That's why conspiring together is the best way. :)


[much snipped]

> So I wonder how mailing list packages deal with this sort of thing?  If the
> contents of some lugnet.* group were gatewayed into a mailing list, wouldn't
> all the authors not subscribed to that mailing list get bounce notifications
> via e-mail from that mailing list daemon?  Or can traditional mailing lists
> be set up not to send bounce notifications to people posting messages from
> other gateways?

Yes, that's certainly much messier than I'd thought initially. Ug.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
 
(...) But you can't just go trading people's e-mail addresses without their permission. :-( (...) I've got it solved on my end, but I don't know how traditional mailing list servers are set up. Surely this has come up at least a zillion times before (...) (28 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
 
(...) Okie dokie, here's my solution. Let's take your message (which I'm replying to) as an example. Instead of gatewaying your message out as: Subject: Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail From: mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) (...) (28 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Hmm, this problem must come up all the time with mailing list technology and the abundance of list exploders. I wonder how this scenario differs from the reverse situation, where a mailing list would have to reject posts coming from people (...) (28 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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