Thanks Ulrich! 

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From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ulrich Giese
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:53 AM
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Subject: Re: default list of list owners?

it's in the 'listmast.memo'
-ulrich-


17.3.2. The ALL-REQUEST alias
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you need to communicate with all of the non-quiet list owners on your
server, simply write to the special ALL-REQUEST alias. ALL- REQUEST is
expanded by LISTSERV to include all non-quiet list owners of all the
lists on your server. Note that ALL-REQUEST should only be used in
emergencies, or when all non-quiet list owners need to be informed that
something is happening, such as a migration from one server to another.

For general news it is probably better to create an administrative
mailing list for your list owners rather than to use ALL-REQUEST.

In LISTSERV 1.8e and following, the ability to post to the ALL-REQUEST
alias, which expands to all non-quiet list owners, has been restricted
as follows:

   1. The site configuration variable, ALL_REQUEST_ALLOWED_USERS, can
      be used to specify who can mail to ALL-REQUEST. This variable
      uses the same syntax as POSTMASTER=, in other words, a space-
      separated list of userid@host specifications.

   2. Postmasters are always allowed to mail to ALL-REQUEST, even when
      not listed in ALL_REQUEST_ALLOWED_USERS.

   3. The determination is made conclusively on the RFC821 MAIL FROM
      because:

        a. This avoids dealing with header errors. Header error = don't
           know who sent this = discard silently = unhappy admin who
           had to send an urgent notice to all his owners.

        b. The main point of this change is to block spammers, and
           spammers typically have non-working or null MAIL FROM:
           addresses. Needless to say, null doesn't pass the test.

   4. When the MAIL FROM is not null, the REQNAK1 mail template form is
      sent when the message is rejected.

Although a further request was considered for a way to disable ALL-
REQUEST entirely, it was decided not to implement it, as the main
concern was to block spammers and general users from posting to the
alias at random.

Stoughton, Brian F. wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'd like to send a message to all the list owners, but I can't 
> remember if there's a default list of owners, and I'm having trouble 
> finding this in the documentation or online.  Is there one?
>
>
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