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Subject: Re: Dealing with multiple Reply-To:s and other message faults
From: Merrill Cook <mcook @ ecunet . org>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 20:13:47 -0500 (EST)
To: Evan Champion <evanc @ synapse . net>
Cc: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu, majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961106124009.29657A-100000@piano.synapse.net> from "Evan Champion" at Nov 6, 96 12:43:24 pm

>From Evan Champion:
> 
> I think it is probably good to bounce the message.  RFC-822 is lenient
> enough in what it allows to pose as valid headers without us making
> further exceptions for broken mailers. 

Bounce, as in send to the list owner? Or bounce, as in return to
the sender with an informative messaeg?

It'd be nice if MD would send a "your mail headers are screwed up"
message back to the sender... as opposed to sending things to the
list-owner, who is likely to be clueless.
 
--
  Regards,

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


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