On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:25:58 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:51:27 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
>> Hi List... I did resent these postings again to the arachne list.
>> They did not return to my inbox and did not reach the list i suppose.
>> Why is that??
>> Regards, Bastiaan
> All the postings with RESENT: in the subject line did make it to the
> list. What was different to the first postings?
> Postings done via my other ISP's having another e-mail address in the
> From: line did not make it to the list...
> So I suppose the senders e-mail address is checked agains the one in
> majordomo's records. The one I use now is the one I subscribed with and
> that is the one that is making it to the list.
> But this makes me wonder how the African president's sons do make it to
> the list... perhaps they subscribed?
> Regards to you all, Bastiaan
I have found that when I attempt to send a message to the list
from my Unix shell account and using PINE, the message will get
bounced back to me at my email address at my Unix shell account.
This will happen even if I fake the "From:" header on the message
sent from my Unix shell account so as to reflect the email address
from which I subscribed. The "bounced mail" message says that the
message was bounced because only valid subscribers are allowed to
post. I can access my POP3 inbox at "shentel.net" from my Unix
shell account, and I can read all messages addressed to me at my
"shentel.net" email address when I am logged on to my Unix shell
account, regardless of whose computer or whose network I use for
getting into my Unix shell account. From my Unix shell account I
can read everything sent to my email address at "shentel.net" and
I can send replies to all of those messages from my Unix shell
account, but any reply sent to the arachne list will get bounced to
my Unix shell account email address saying that I cannot post unless
I am a valid subscriber. The list server for the Arachne List knows
that the message was not sent from an smtp server belonging to
"shentel.net" even if I fake my "From:". This means that the list
server will not allow posting unless both of two conditions are
satisfied:
1. That the "From:" header matches an email address of a valid
subscriber.
2. That the IP number of the smtp server from which the message
originated matches an IP number of an smtp server belonging
to the network of the valid subscriber.
If both of the above conditions are not satisfied, the list server
determines that the sender of the message is not a valid subscriber.
It would seem to me that if even I can't post here without meeting
the above two conditions, then the late Nigerian general's son can't
do so either, unless there is a system in place that confers special
privileges to the reputed sons of the late Nigerian general.
Sam Heywood
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