Honestly Rob, please do not just take a snippet from my email. If you are going to send that out, you might as well send out my last paragraph. I apologized for it being a bit lengthy, but it gives my opinion on the matter. The top is more of going through "what ifs". As stated later on, I feel that it should be left as it is. -Russ
> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:54 PM > To: Russ Kay > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] WTF??? > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:48:14PM -0500, Russ Kay wrote: > > If they got a polite(ish) bounce back, that could be bad. Say for > instance > > someone sends a spam email to this list from an address that does not > really > > exist. Majordomo sees it's not a member and gives it a bounce back. A > Mailer > > Deamon finds out that the address does not exist, and bounces it back > again > > to us? Or does Majordomo check first? > > Nothing responds to mail from mailer-daemon. Dem's the rules, just to > prevent stuff like this and majordomo follows them. This is a total > non-issue. > > > I think that if it's going to be anything, then it should drop them. > > I disagree - that's exactly what causes confusion and people to not join > the list. > > - Rob > .
