At 07:39 AM 11/26/2002 -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
The list admin should add the unsubscribed address to the
list of "known email addresses". See item 5 in:
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/mail-submit-policy.txt
that's one of the list admin's options. But it turns out that many list
admins consider adding a name to a list unbidden is impolite, and choose to
not do this either, because they consider it error-prone and potentially
insecure. Simply adding the address doesn't check that it is an address
someone can send mail *to*, which is something someone replying to the list
expects, and it doesn't allow people to reliably trim the CC line - I can
usually remove email addresses from the CC line other than the alias
itself, and simply reply to the list, but in this case that would cut the
person out of the discussion. If there is a clear definition of a member
(for example, a member of the IAB), "known addresses" is a useful
work-around, but for a list participant, adding his email to the list is
pretty much de rigeur.
The list moderator asked him to add his email address to the list, and
indicated that as a result of doing so his mail would be unmoderated. Is it
so hard to do?