At 4:54 PM -0400 5/20/01, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>When you are the maintainer of a list
That assumes that someone is the maintainer of the IETF mailing list.
At this moment, that is not the case. You are asking that an
additional task be put on one of the IETF Secretariat folks. That's
a reasonable request (and one that I would second), but it is not
based in current reality.
> > Quite a few IETFers have more than one email address.
>
>Which is why Majordomo lets you have a seperate list of addresses that
>can post but don't get the mail. Works beautifully.
No, it works clumsily. It requires that someone who wants to post
from a different address than the one they are subscribed to must
somehow register the alternate address with the list maintainer. Or
that the list maintainer must write custom software that enhances the
list of allowed-to-post addresses with guesses like "if there is a
subscription for [EMAIL PROTECTED], also allow [EMAIL PROTECTED]; if
there is a subscription for [EMAIL PROTECTED], also allow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]". But that will still miss people who are subscribed
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] but posting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(And, yes, I've written such code for the lists IMC and VPNC runs; it
is available on request.)
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
