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Subject: automatic handling of subdomains?
From: Sam Leffler <sam @ oxford . chez . sgi . com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 09:39:31 PDT
To: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM

I get lots of Majordomo requests forwarded to me because
user@host.domain asks that user@domain be subscribed/unsubscribed.
For example,

	sam@flake.asd.sgi.com

asks to be subscribed as

	sam@asd.sgi.com

Is there a problem with having Majordomo automatically recognize
and accept these cases (other than the obvious one that some sites
might be so stupid as have duplicate account names in different
subdomains)?  I figure you'll need some control over the stripping
process; such as how many subdomains you're willing to strip off
when matching the sender's identity against the requested account.

My goal in doing this is to reduce the number of requests that I
have to handle manually.  Alternatively, how do folks respond to
requests like the above, do you say "no" and/or tell folks to
subscribe w/ an account name that's handled automatically?

	Sam






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