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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: cc generated with both to-address and to-list set
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:45:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjy9e17nrr.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wc38z62cv7b.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu> (Benjamin Rutt's message of "Wed, 29 May 2002 20:53:28 -0400")

Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> postings.  Setting to-address is like asserting "I know that all the
> people reading the list are subscribed".  I've never read a mailing
> list where I could prove that assertion.

Most mailing list software has a "disallow non-subscribers posting"
option, which I guess is getting increasingly common in order to
prevent spam.

The USEFOR list used to work like that, until someone pointed out it
was against the IETF rules.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-25 14:21 Make gnus-agent default to t? Simon Josefsson
2002-05-25 17:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-25 19:11   ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-29 13:11     ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-29 19:29       ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-29 20:14         ` David S Goldberg
2002-05-29 20:20         ` cc generated with both to-address and to-list set (was Re: Make gnus-agent default to t?) David S Goldberg
2002-05-29 21:17           ` cc generated with both to-address and to-list set Paul Jarc
2002-05-30  0:53             ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-30 13:45               ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2002-05-30 13:51                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-29 21:54         ` Make gnus-agent default to t? Simon Josefsson
2002-05-29 21:57           ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-30 17:22       ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-30 17:52         ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-30 17:56           ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-30 18:00           ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-30 19:32             ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-30 20:24               ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-26  8:26 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-05-29 13:15   ` Simon Josefsson

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