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Subject: Re: MJ 1.94.5 - Messages not Being Forwarded to List Members
From: Jason Witherspoon <arzachel @ speakeasy . org>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:41:36 -0800
To: dliston @ netscape . com (Dan Liston)
Cc: Todd Lyons <todd @ mrball . net>, Chris Sheppard <cpfs @ isoxford . com>, Majordomo Users List <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
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At 7:43 AM -0700 10/26/00, Dan Liston wrote:
>Jason Witherspoon wrote:
>>
>>  At 9:16 AM -0700 10/25/00, Todd Lyons wrote:
>>  >If you look in the sendmail FAQ, there's a section that basically says
>>  >the Majordomo FAQ is wrong:
>>  >
>>  >    http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.32
>>  >and the next section explains why:
>>  >    http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.33
>>  >-
>>
>>  Pardon my presumptuousness here, but perhaps someone should change
>>  the Majordomo FAQ?  About 70% of the discussion here seems to be
>>  related to difficulties caused by it's misinformation about
>>  preferences--
>>  --
>
>I think you mean permissions where you said preferences, but
>either way, majordomo will run with the permissions listed in the
>FAQ (IF your sendmail is old, OR you disable some/most of sendmail
>security).  The key to majordomo is understanding sendmail.  Just
>another reference for situational awareness.

Yup, I meant permissions--

>
>A section should be appended to the FAQ to cover the newer sendmail
>security issues, but 70% of the discussions here did not start with
>people reading the FAQ anyway. :(
>
>Dan Liston

Well, I *did* go step by step through the FAQ, & saw a bunch of other 
people asking the same questions I had, so I'll heartily second the 
first part of that last sentence of yours--




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