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Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:37:45 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > But you can't just go trading people's e-mail addresses without their
> > permission. :-(
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> True. But an arrangement like this wouldn't be trading e-mail addresses as
> such -- it'd be more of an expanding of both services.
Hmm, so if there were a checkbox saying "give my e-mail address to lego-
related mailing list servers so that my messages posted here can be allowed
to show up there as well," would that suffice?
Say, do mailing list servers allow people to be write-only or read-only?
That is, can they be set so that someone is allowed to submit messages but
isn't flooded with the normal traffic from the list? I read last night that
at least one listserver allowed this; maybe they all do.
Another possibility might be to set up outgoing messages to special lists
so that they are "From:" the server here and not "From:" their original
author. That way, they would all pass without rejection, assuming the
server here were allowed to send out messages to a given mailing list.
And sending out copies of people's posts without their permission fits
well within the Terms of Use, which allow LUGNET to republish submitted
content in any medium. (So in effect, they have already given their
permission to do so.) I believe the way this is accomplished in SMTP
is to use 'Resent-' headers:
From: lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com
Resent-From: Poster Name <poster@address>
None of the solutions are 100% pretty, but I think it could all be made
to work.
Incidentally, I just realized that I forgot to add logic to the newsserver
here to validate the 'Resent-From:' and 'Original-From:' headers (if present)
as well as the 'From:' header.
--Todd
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| (...) Majordomo can be set up this way. By definition, any decent list server must be as good as Majordomo. Huh. You're proposing that people who want to read/post on LUGnet but not via e-mail would be set up as able to post, but not actually be on (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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