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Subject: Re: To: address rejection
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian @ hyperreal . org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:42:56 -0700
To: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse @ fmp . com>, majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3.0.3.32.19971020150153.008c5870@linux.fmp.com>

At 03:01 PM 10/20/97 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
>An increasing number of mail servers are taking much needed measures to
>deal with spam email, and I'm seeing some interesting bounces from the
>majordomo lists which I administer.  One of the more direct and effective
>measures is for the mail server to look at the To: address in the header
>body and reject mail for which the To: address is not local.  Since
>Majordomo always puts the list address in the To: header, this mail
>bounces.  Are there any solutions for this in the works?

That's broken beyond belief.  In my opinion a site like that doesn't really
want its users to be on internet mailing lists, and I wouldn't lift a
finger to support them.

	Brian


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