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- From: jsq@usenix.org (John S. Quarterman)
-
- In article <435@usenix.ORG> From: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox)
- >I'm not sure how these responses got into the newsgroup. I intended
- >to send my original response directly to the guy who asked for a list
- >of utilities. I didn't think I was posting it to the world. Ah, well.
-
- A while back, there was a chronic problem with people on the mailing list,
- std-unix@uunet.uu.net
- not being able to figure out how to post messages or to send comments
- to the moderator. There were cases of people replying to the original
- submittor in attempts to unsubscribe. So I added a
- Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net
- line to force replies back to the list submission address. This worked
- fine for quite a while.
-
- While I was gone last week, there was a spate of people reading the newsgroup,
- comp.std.unix
- and attempting to respond to the submittor of an article. Their messages
- got sent to the moderator, because of the Reply-To: line. This has
- occasionally happened before, but there were many more than usual last
- week, and the guest moderator wasn't expecting them.
-
- So, I'm going to try separating the headers in the mailing list and in
- the newsgroup. I've already removed the
- Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net
- line from the newsgroup articles, and am adding a hack to put it back
- in the mailing list as it's gatewayed from the newsgroup. We'll see
- how that works. I predict somebody will complain....
-
- John S. Quarterman, moderator, comp.std.unix and std-unix@uunet.uu.net
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 39
-
-