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>> If I change the SEND=PUBLIC to SEND=PRIVATE that should stop listservfrom
>> distributing mail from persons not subscribed to the list, right? Since
>> mailers don't normally subscribe to lists they wouldn't be able to bounce
>> crap back to the whole list.
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>It will not stop LISTSERV from distributing mail to the "bad" IDs.
>That's not how LISTSERV works. What happens is: ...
Ok, I think I follow. I don't want to push the problem off to someone else
but I do want to get rid of it.
>What sort of problems are you trying to correct?
The problem in which mail is sent to a subscriber and the mail system that he
is on returns a note to the list because it can't get the mail through. This
happens at least once for each piece of mail being distributed so it can
happen almost 50 times a day. At 900+ subscribers, this also seems to occur
with different accounts 2 to 3 times a month.
Listserv seems to fail more thatn succeed in catching this problem. Also, my
original idea of setting SEND=PRIVATE is causing problems because some people
are in the list under slightly different accounts then the one in the header
when they send mail and thus get rejected. For instance, "joe@bit1" is in the
list as such but mail from him is address from "[log in to unmask]" and when
SEND=PRIVATE he gets rejected when posting. I think this happens when people
subscribe via a tell command instead of sending mail.
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Tom Cervenka - Univ of Il at Chicago, Info Cntr, Phone 6-7739
Internet: ctct100icvmc.aiss.uiuc.edu
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