From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 4 08:21:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04188 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 08:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles315.castles.com [208.214.167.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04177 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 08:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03361; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 08:18:08 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809040818.IAA03361@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better SNR suggestion for the mailing lists In-reply-to: Your message of "04 Sep 1998 10:43:29 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 08:18:06 +0000 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA04181 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Eivind Eklund writes: > > The problem with this is the same as requiring subscriptions for > > posting at all - a lot of us are subscribed through different accounts > > than we post from (I, for instance, am subscribed through my > > FreeBSD.ORG account except for the lists where I made a mistake), and > > it is not very practical to have to post through those addresses. > > So, am I the only hacker in the world to have added sender alias > support to his mailing list package? I'm sure it would be a SMOP in > Majordomo. Allow each subscriber to specify one or several aliases > from which he/she wishes to post, but to which mail will not be sent. Is this based on envelope or message headers? If it's based on message headers I guess it still leaves a small window for creative abuse. If it's based on the envelope sender, then it still leaves us rovers screwed. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message