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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 13:08:09 GMT
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Once upon a time, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
> 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 mailing list). So, although
> this cleanly avoids bouncing failed messages back to a mailing list (which
> would be horrendously bad because everyone on the list would get a copy of the
> bounced mail), it does have the problem that rejected messages still disappear
> silently into the bit bucket.
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> Does that matter? Yes (maybe) because certain types of messages are still
> rejected even if From-line validation is are circumvented by way of a mailing
> list. Any kind of binary content or MIME message is still always rejected.
>
> So perhaps failed messages originating from other gateways should actually be
> bounced back after all -- but not to the list itself -- instead to the list's
> administrator.
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> Would that be better or worse than deleting the message silently? I guess it'd
> be up to the list administrator on a case-by-case basis.
Do silent bouncing, particularly in the case of bouncing for
attachments/binary content. If it made it through the list, they can
either police themselves (ie, flame their own members) or that type of
content is allowable on that list.
Case-by-case setup is probably better, if it isn't too much work.
Steve
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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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