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Dan Lester <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 23 May 1996 22:01:18 MST
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On Thu, 23 May 1996 17:41:07 -0500 Winship said:
>> My opinion: unless you allow anonymous subscribers on your
>> list as a rule, don't allow ROOT.  As a matter of fact,
>> I'm considering adding that to my lists "* FILTER= ALSO,"
>> just like POSTMASTER et al.
>
>Heck, I've had * FILTER= ALSO, root@*
>in place for as long as we've had filters.
>
   Yet another good reason for having such a filter in place is that root@*
can't post to the list...a part of the bounce filtering system, I believe, as
that is a common address for bounces to come from.
 
dan
 
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