[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I like the idea of being able to unlink e-mail addresses from users, but
> > only if it can be done without sacrificing accountability somehow.
>
> ezmlm-idx already does this by restricting posting to subscribers
> (matching envelope sender), and then allowing subscribers to register
> alternate addresses from which they might send mail. One user,
> multiple email addresses.
If the alternate addresses registrations have to come from the original
account, this may defeat the purpose. Plus, isn't the envelope sender
address the most frequently munged variant due to mail gateway changes
and other things that most users are blithely unaware of?
Writing mailing list management software strikes me as the software
equivalent of battling the Gorgon, when you chop off one head two
spring up to take its place.
Between users who don't understand the mechanics of e-mail addressing (and
probably shouldn't need to), users who move accounts at the drop of a
hat (AOL screen names being one of the WORST offenders, IMHO.) system
administrators who keep changing things, braindead systems, glitches,
config errors, and probably a dozen other recurrent problems, sometimes
its a wonder to me that e-mail works at all.
--
Mike Nolan
