Atte writes: | I just got off the mail with Toby, and the lists behavior is now changed | so that only subscribers can post to the list. That should get rid of | funny Russian stuff + the 10 followups from list members. | | Now back to the music - where were we :-)
First, one further suggestion: Is there a way to make it clear in the email headers what address the list sent a message to? In looking over the headers for Atte's message, I do see my own address, but only in the lines that appear to be generated by this machine's email software. This address could have been generated locally during the forwarding from one of my other addresses. The ongoing problem with "subscriber only" rules is that a lot of us have more than one email address. It's fairly common for people to do something like attempt to unsubscribe (or stop mail during a trip or vacation), and find that they can't because the list software insists that they aren't subscribed. Then it's "OK, what email address does this list have for me?" It's often exceedingly difficult to discover this critical piece of information. In my case, I've been on some lists for quite a few years, and the lists probably have one of my old addresses. The folks here at MIT are quite good at maintaining old addresses and forwarding the mail to wherever you like. This means that 20-year-old mit.edu addresses mostly still work. But, of course, it's usually difficult to send email from those addresses. And if you don't know which address is being used, you usually can't convince the sender to stop sending. They just treat you as a hoaxster trying to hijack someone's email. I've seen some email with a header like "X-Sent-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]", or some other nonstandard header line that mailers aren't likely to munge because they don't recognize it. This sort of thing is really useful when trying to straighten out email problems. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
