On Thu, 23 May 2002, David W. Tamkin wrote:
I remember the Smartlist documentation stating that an owner-listname alias
was unnecessary and incompatible with Smartlist. I had an owner-listname
[bla, bla]
on all incoming posts. It turned out that what owner-listname was doing was
what it was designed to do, and I had simply never known its true purpose
before. So I asked the admin to create listname-owner to replace it for the
uses I intended and, after two weeks to let any NDNs to trickle back in, to
disable owner-listname.
Owner-listname's canonical behavior is a vestige from the days when mailing
lists were nothing but :include: aliases that reflected any mail to the list
back out to all members with no processing, and I personally consider it
poison.
So are you saying that there is some 'Smartypants' out there who is
willing to cut a check for the shortcomings of this philosophy?
--Paul
--
William J. Broad: "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass
of the universe seems to be missing."
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