On 24 Mar 1997, Rich Pieri wrote:
> MV> I'd appreciate any info about the (dis)advantages of running majordomo
> MV> via aliases at the <listname>-request address, please. Is it just a
> MV> historical option, or is there real value in that approach?
>
> Both. The value is that you send mail to <list>, you send administrivia to
> <list>-request, and the owner of th list is <list>-owner. The benefit is
> that no matter what list management sofware you use you always have a
> <list>-request and <list>-owner address for relevant direction of mail.
...and the down-side is that many people expect to reach a human when they
write to the -request address, as RFC's have implied for years. It's a
good idea to add the list owner's actual mailbox to -request aliases, if
you use automated processing. I think it's not a big win, so I run
request-answer on those addresses and forward the input to the owners too;
unsolicited mail to -request is rarely in a legal command format, in my
experience.
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