Re: OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:36:54PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:32:59PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>
> > i guess that this'll help cut down on the my.netvigator.com idiocy?
>
> No. Pretty much all mailing list software rewrites the envelope sender
> so that bounces don't go to individual subscribers. This has always
> been the case for Debian lists. The problem with netvigator is that
> their software is generating bounces to the From: line in the message
> (which is not rerwitten) rather than the envelope sender.
i think they've fixed it. i've not seen any netvigator bounces for
a few days.
(wanna know how i got'm to stop? i found a human at a real email address,
and forwarded all my netvigator.com bounces to him. that way he got
to see all the headers and the inconvenience first-hand. nothing to it!)
--
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