No, I'm not the administrator of the WEDI listserves.  Frankly, they
don't even run their own listserve - it's outsourced to some company.
Besides, I can't imagine the abuse possible with subscribing an alias to
an otherwise public mailing list - it's obvious the alias belongs to my
company and can be tracked down by domain name.  The only point of using
the alias was to get around the confirmation requirement.

So, would it be possible to use the "To:" address for the name of the
mailing list rather than the "Delivered-To:"?  Pretty please?

William J. Kammerer
Novannet, LLC.
Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859
+1 (614) 487-0320

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Breidenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 18 October, 2003 03:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Gossip] Use of forwarded e-mail to circumvent
confirmationrequirement.



>Now I wish to have the various WEDI mailing lists re-subscribed.  Since
>the Mail Archive doesn't support confirmations any longer, I simply
>subscribed an alias that  belongs to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Are you the list admin? Can't you bypass the confirmation? Admins are
supposed to have god-like powers over this stuff. And I like the idea
that an admin probably has to be involved - it helps minimize
confusion and abuse.

>I suspect the "Delivered-To:" address (the forwarding alias) is being
>used by Mail Archive, rather than the correct "To:" address.  Can this
>"behavior" be corrected?

Best way to correct is get rid of the forwarding alias. I hate those
things as a general rule. If that's absolutely impossible, ask again
and maybe I can do something on this end.

By the way, Mail-Archive code is available from the FAQ somewhere,
if you ever want to examine the heuristic sort yourself.

-Jeff



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