On Wed, 11 Dec 1991 23:56:13 EST John Voigt said:
>On Thu, 12 Dec 1991 02:53:59 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>>On Wed, 11 Dec 1991 17:17:17 PST Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM> said:
>>
>>>Notice that IBM7171 at TCSVM is not mentioned. Why?
>>
>>Because its  list-ID has been  set to  'IBM7171-MAIN' (with the  quotes -
>>sigh) by the list owner. All peers ought to have the same list ID.
>
>As the (former) list owner let me just say that this was done to prevent
>having to deal with the messages I was getting because of (unauthorized)
>peers.  Several people peered to IBM7171 without my permission and (by
>ignoring my requests) refused to unpeer.  Worse yet, they had people on
>their lists whose mail would bounce and would not remove them.  They
>also had not added me as an owner on their copy of the list.  All this
>resulted in me getting angry having to deal with the crap and changing
>the name of the list to what it is now - with NO peers.
 
What I have been known to do in a case like this is to un-subscribe the
unauthorized peer and then "serve off" the address.  When they want to play
by the rules, then they can let me know, otherwise they can forget it.
 
Harold