Re: MISC quirks
- To: MISC
- Subject: Re: MISC quirks
- From: rockwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 16:46 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.950418154803.2167B-100000@pisa> (message from Penio Penev on Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:57:09 -0400 (EDT))
Penio Penev:
The reason is much simpler. There was a mail loop at some time last
year, that was really annoying. It could have been prevented, among
other things, by forbidding submissions by non-subscribers. The
policy has been changed since then.
Ahh! That explains why I didn't get a bounce message explaining that
I couldn't send to the list from this email address.
Um... a better solution (in my opinion) would have been to put a block
on the specific address which was causing the mail loop. This limits
the damage without limiting the list as a whole.
Thanks,
Raul Miller