Re: Now who does cause this ???

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:15:08 +0300


I must clarify things before Matthew's sayings become "facts":

On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
...
> Wrong. It is (AFAIK) never correct for an MTA to use a From: address
> for any purpose. That's why majordomo inserts a "Return-path:
> owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger" to every mail, and any MTA ignoring that
> is broken.

Nope, MTA does that Return-Path: entry; in fact per specification
it is *your* MTA that does it.

...
> Matti /is/ the list owner and the point of his message was to point out
> that some brain-dead person behind a brain-dead MTA has broken their
> linux-kernel subscription.

Nope again, I am not list-owner of any of VGER's lists, but I do
get quite much enough email as is... I just keep that MTA at VGER
going...

> Matthew.

/Matti Aarnio

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