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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 19:57:51 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmNOSPAM.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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.
I think that might be ok. Because the person sending the message to the
e-mail list might not necessarily even care about whether LUGnet accepted
the message. Just like if a list-recipient's mailbox were full or otherwise
not accepting mail -- the rest of the list doesn't want to see the bounces.
> 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.
I dunno. It'd be better to (automatically of course) find the originator of
the problem message and send it do them directly -- the list admin probably
has enough to bother with. My friend Paul runs the Quote of the Day list for
our Quotes 'R' Us site. It's got only a few thousand users, and it's
write-only once-a-day, and it still consumes a fair amount of his time.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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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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