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Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 27 Oct 1998 02:22:48 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> > 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.
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)
X-Real-Life-Name: Matthew Miller
To: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
Reply-To: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
Bcc: recipients-list
etc.
it'll gateway it out as (changes marked with arrows):
Subject: Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
--> From: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com (Matthew Miller)
--> Original-From: mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
X-Real-Life-Name: Matthew Miller
To: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
Reply-To: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
Bcc: recipients-list
etc.
That way,
1) The outgoing message will never messily bounce to you if some recipient
couldn't be reached -- even if mailers along the way ignore 'Errors-To'
headers.
2) Any mailing lists accepting messages from lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
would automatically accept the message, whether or not you are on their
acceptable-posters list. In other words, lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com
acts as a proxy for you to any mailing list it's attached to.
3) Gatewayed messages are much more clearly marked -- but -- here's the cool
part: Your name still shows up in the From line of the message -- which is
nice from an interactive e-mail reading point of view. In fact, in many
mail readers, the lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com address portion won't
even show up in the index-listing -- only in the full-message view.
--Todd
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