Posts to user list not going through ?

Todd Slater dontodd at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 16:04:17 UTC 2006


On 12/30/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:18:44 +0000
> norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
>
> > Just got 2 more both sent to my home address. Is this some sort of
> > attempt to build up a list for advertising purposes from those who
> > bother to reply?
>
> No, I think, as Derek suggested, it is just someone who subscribed using an
> address that has since become invalid - I expect it will stop as soon as
> the relevant admins fix it :)
>
> The ones I am seeing are being tagged as spam by bogofilter and dropped
> into my spam directory, which suits me fine ;-)
>
> Peter

It is odd that list users are receiving the message, as it's something
that mailman should either handle itself by automatically unsubbing
bounced addresses, or the notices should go to the list admins only,
not the entire list.

Todd




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