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Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
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Tue, 27 Oct 1998 02:25:14 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:

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.

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
mailing list, and the original 'From' line was moved to the 'Original-From'
line?  Now all messages would pass without any problems.

--Todd



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(...) Ok, I think there's only one hitch here with this -- My mail->news converter code bounces messages back to their author when it can't post an article -- except if the message came through a non- lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com gateway (i.e., a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) 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. (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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