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Subject: Re: Best Mailing List Software For A Host Startup
From: Brent Chapman <Brent @ GreatCircle . COM>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:25:46 -0800
To: Berg <berg @ eskimo . com>, brad @ his . com
Cc: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199610300735.XAA03817@eskimo.com>

At 11:35 PM -0800 10/29/96, Berg wrote:
>	Well, Majordomo has a nasty little bug in it.  When sending out a post,
>it starts at the top of the subscriber list, and if it hits a bad address
>halfway down the list, it aborts, then starts over.  On a large list, this
>can mean that half a dozen bad addresses out of 500 subscribers can cut off
>400 of them.

No, whatever mailer you're using has that bug.  Majordomo doesn't do
message delivery; it invokes whatever mailer you point it at.


-Brent

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