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Subject: Re: which fails for private lists?
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ cs . umb . edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 13:18:34 -0400
To: Dan Simoes <dans @ ans . net>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 1994 09:57:59 EDT." <199406021358.AA104063@foo.ans.net>


In message <199406021358.AA104063@foo.ans.net>,
Dan Simoes writes:

>According to majordomo itself, it seems that a 'which' on 
>a private list will only work for the sender.
>In practice, a which fails completely if the list is private.
>Is this normal behavior?

A private list allows who and which only if you are a member of the
list. However membership is defined by matching the from address to an
address on the list. If the address that a person uses is not the
address that is in the from header, you get the effect you describe.
This is often seen when the user subscribes as rouilj@cs.umb.edu, but
the from line shows rouilj@terminus.cs.umb.edu.

1.90 helps to make up for this by allowing the use of a munge_domain
so that addresses such as:

	rouilj@terminus.cs.umb.edu
and
	rouilj@cs.umb.edu

compare equal.

				-- John
John Rouillard

Senior Systems Consultant (SERL Project) University of Massachusetts at Boston
rouilj@cs.umb.edu (preferred)            Boston, MA, (617) 287-6480
==============================================================================
My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions.


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