patch for making non-member submissions bounce to sender

[Wesley Eddy <weddy @ masaka . cs . ohiou . edu>]

We run a few majordomo managed lists at our site, and use an "only list-members
may post to this list" policy to cut down on the amount of spam and stupid
questions that make it to the lists.  Anyways, as of version 1.94.5, majordomo
only bounces non-member submissions to these type of lists to the listname-approval
address.  This is less than desirable behavior, as clueless folks tend to either
assume their message actually went out to the list, or simply post 30 more messages
saying "Hey, does this thing work?  Can anybody hear me?"  To cut down on this
kind of silliness, I quickly hacked a couple of lines into the resend script at
our site to also bounce mail to the sender, letting him know that his mail didn't
go through.  Attatched is a diff.  I'm curious about a couple of things:

a) Why doesn't majordomo bounce non-member submissions to the sender already?
Is there some fear of possible use for DoS or something?

b) Are there plans to incorporate such a feature into future releases?

c) Is there a better way to do this than my patch?  (probably yes)

Thanks.

-Wes

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<                       $config_opts{$opt_l, 'moderator'} : "$opt_l-approval\@$whereami"),
---
>                       $config_opts{$opt_l, 'moderator'} : 
>                         (( $reason =~ "Non-member" ) ?
>                           "$opt_l-approval\@$whereami, $from" :
>                        "$opt_l-approval\@$whereami")),

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