Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:06:25 EDT
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> difficult to signoff ....
1) I thought the cleanup was only worthwhile if a simple bitnet
nodename was betwix the % and the @
2) If the user's mail consistantly arrives with the source-address
format, cleaning up the subscription address will do more harm than
good. The cleanup would have to be done dynamically when LISTSERV
takes the item out of its reader to avoid having a subscription
address that does not match address the "from" address of a command.
( correct ? )
-mike
ps - what controls which 'from' address LISTSERV uses when it sends
the confirmation instructions ( or is it hard-coded ) ( i e
when I send MAIL to someone ( with LMAIL ), if it is going to a
bitnet address, my address is in ".bitnet' form, otherwise my
address appears in internet ".edu" form. It appears here that all
confirmation instructions are sent out with a ".edu" FROM: address
even if the sub request came from a ".bitnet" address to a ".bitnet"
address. If they are running LMAIL and reply to the Confirm request,
the reply is addressed to our INTERNET address with appropriate
gateway additions - so a LARGE number of confirmations-via-reply
fail because sub and confirm FROM addresses don't match.
Is this a reasonable senerio or have I dropped a bit somewhere .... ?
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