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Subject: Re: Finding A Listowner
From: Ken Hooper <bighouse @ type2 . com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:11:20 -0500
To: Eric Thomas <ERIC @ VM . SE . LSOFT . COM>, list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199806151612.JAA23835@honor.greatcircle.com>
References: Message of Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:59:52 -0500 (CDT) from list-managers-owner@GreatCircle.COM

Eric Thomas wrote:

>WEBMASTER and so forth. Only one  of the sections is about mailing lists,
>and then  only about the  -REQUEST address.

Eric, I have a question. Your reason for outright refusing to implement
this standard (if we assume the RFC dictates that the MLM sw reside at the
-request address) is that it would rob a Listserv list of its "human
contact" address, is that not correct?

But if I remember right, Listserv also uses listname-owner as a human
contact address (which is very sensible because -owner implies a human
whereas -request does not unless you are an ARPANET fossil).

Let's just grant that whoever wrote that RFC were a bunch of knuckleheads.
Regardless, do you require two addresses that point to humans? At least, is
it not simple to make it configurable, such that -request can point either
to a human or the MLM at the administrator's discretion?

Just curious.

--Ken
  type2.com webmaster  "He was too lazy to fix it, but not too lazy
                        to bitch."  --Steve Dolan
 




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