Re: A MODEST PROPOSAL (fwd)

At 08:05 PM 5/4/96 EDT, "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>	The reason I say majordomo is broken is that it shows up
> with the address of the original sender, not the address of the list,
> as the From address. Other mailing list software does not do this.

I think that's user-settable, but there is no ideal approach.
Cypherpunks tried several different approaches to addresses, 
and settled on this one as causing the least overall problems.
The big advantage is that replies go to the original sender by default 
rather than to the list (which reduces the amount of personal mail going
to the list, winning both on noise-reduction and embarassment-reduction);
the disadvantage is that bouncemail goes to the original sender, rather
than the list or the list-manager (bouncemail to the sender is annoying, 
but minor; bouncemail to the list is extremely annoying, as well as 
potentially causing mail loops, which are an extreme lossage.  Bouncemail
to the list-manager is ideal (not that the list-manager usually reads it),
but it's hard to get without reducing replies directly to originators,
as well as increasing replies accidentally going to the list-manager.
#					Thanks;  Bill
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> At 08:05 PM 5/4/96 EDT, "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> >	The reason I say majordomo is broken is that it shows up
> > with the address of the original sender, not the address of the list,
> > as the From address. Other mailing list software does not do this.

Majordomo is good for small lists. For anything larger, its lack of heuristics
makes it a real liability. I've converted all my lists over to SmartMail
(with some minor changes to the SmartMail code). If anyone wants a copy let
me know.

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 considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So
 I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we
 can make it. You get me?" - Leo Bulero/PKD
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