On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, Amos Shapira wrote about "Re: @iglu list address no
longer working":
> For some reason (people too lazy to change over?) the list managers decided
> to keep all three address instead of unifying them to one ("
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" is the natural one, IMHO).
True.
> Following that, people who replied through the address from which they were
> not subscribed got bounced.
> So a while ago the list managers dropped the subscription requirements and
> allowed non-member posts.
This is probably not true. The subscription requirements were never dropped.
But what happened (at least as far as I understand) is that @iglu and @linux
are mere *aliases*, they forward all their mail to the @huji address. At
@huji, the validity of the "From:" address, and potentially other things,
are checked, just like it always did.
@iglu and @linux are no longer (again, if I understand correctly) mailing
lists. They don't run any mailing list software, or any special filter at
all. They don't have their own subscriber list. They just forward everything
they get to @huji. Naturally, much of what they get is spam, just like much
of what you get to any address, and this mixture of spam and (until some time
ago) real posts is what got sent to huji.
If I'm not correct in any of these statements, please step in an correct me.
> 1. What's the matter with @linux.org.il? Is it still used?
No, just like the @iglu address, it got the axe and is ignored on Huji,
so anything you send to it gets lost.
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