On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:24:08PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > Let's say I run a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] and someone like (oh, I > dunno) yahoogroups subscribes to the list and provides subscription > services of its own.
> Now, suppose someone on [EMAIL PROTECTED] starts bouncing, and we're > VERPing. Won't our Mailman think that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the > bouncing member? > Or will/should yahoogroups rewrite the envelope sender for /its/ > downstream members? They should do that, and also do things like discard all the Received headers so that yahoo subscribers don't bouce the mail due to "too many hops" restrictions on downstream MTAs. In a sense, whether a mailing list package uses VERP or provides individualized X-List headers (which should also be manipulated), or visible URLs in the message body, the reality is that many mailing list packages send out messages whose contents are intended for a specific indivdual. Anyone who wants to "reflect" a list will need to deal with any such customized headers or content if they want to keep their subscribers happy. This problem affects more than simply VERPed messages, and it's not the primary/top/initial mailing list's responsibility to "fix" the problem, IMO. -Peter -- We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish as fools. - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
