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Subject: Re: Looping, cascading Welcome and HELP messages (fwd)
From: Merrill Cook <mcook @ ecunet . org>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:16:25 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Steven K. Buehler" <skb @ sbcomp . net>
Cc: bill @ celestial . com, ben @ dha . unon . org, majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3.0b26.32.19960930071947.006ba604@205.242.194.21> from "Steven K. Buehler" at Sep 30, 96 07:36:33 am

>From Steven K. Buehler:
> 
> If you want to fix it so that message don't get bounced back to the list,
> then don't let your majordomo use the list address in the from field.  Have
> it use the address of the person that actually sent the message.  Now I
> have heard that there are a few mailers that screw that up, but that is
> very few and those people can be delt with individually.  If you look at
> the from field of this message, you will see my address and not the lists
> address.  The lists address is the Sender: field.  So when someone or
> something does a reply to the message, it will normally go back to the
> person that wrote it and not to the list.

We're not talking about list messages, we're talking about status
messages with "majordomo" in the From line. 

-- 
  Regards,

  Merrill Cook 
  Louisville KY 
  mcook@pcusa.org     or MERRILL COOK on Ecunet/PresbyNet
  http://www.pcusa.org/pcusa.html
      -+-


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