Ok, so I don't understand what all the fuss over RFC 2142 is about.
This is what it says:
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6. MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION MAILBOX
Mailing lists have an administrative mailbox name to which add/drop
requests and other meta-queries can be sent.
For a mailing list whose submission mailbox name is:
<LIST@DOMAIN>
there MUST be the administrative mailbox name:
<LIST-REQUEST@DOMAIN>
Distribution List management software, such as MajorDomo and
Listserv, also have a single mailbox name associated with the
software on that system -- usually the name of the software -- rather
than a particular list on that system. Use of such mailbox names
requires participants to know the type of list software employed at
the site. This is problematic. Consequently:
LIST-SPECIFIC (-REQUEST) MAILBOX NAMES ARE REQUIRED,
INDEPENDENT OF THE AVAILABILITY OF GENERIC LIST SOFTWARE
MAILBOX NAMES.
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There is *no* statement here that the -request address must be an
automated MLM! All it says is that there must be a -request
administrative address "to which add/drop requests and other
meta-queries can be sent."
It seems to me that Listserv's behavior of having a human contact
at the -request address is entirely consistent with this RFC.
It might be *preferable* that this be the MLM, but I see nothing
in this text that disallows using the human contact address, especially
with an autoresponder.
So I, for one, see no problem here. My reading is that Listserv's
behavior is allowed by RFC 2142.
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