Mailing list [Was Re: Ports]

Walt, Periodically there is a problem when a mailing list subscriber gets his email account terminated. This seems to result in the email being bounced back to the original news group poster. It may be that this only happens with a small number of misconfigured mail systems but it's a pain. In order for this to happen it would appear that the poster's email address is being picked up as a return address by the remote mail system rather than the mailing list's input address. Would it be possible for the poster's address to be mangled in some way (e.g. "Ian Goddard <igoddard@netcomuk.co.uk>") so that, with a little luck, the bounced message is itself failed and bounced back to the postmaster on the ex-subscriber's system. Ian Walt Hultgren {rmy} wrote: > > In article <5fe66r$h8j@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, > Tobias Svennebring <d92-tsv@nada.kth.se> wrote: > > > >Also I wonder what this informix-list is. Is it a usenet list? > > Usenet is the name given to a collection of sites that run what is > essentially a distributed bulletin board system. Most of these sites > are on the Internet, but I daresay there are still many that connect > via dial-up UUCP and other ways. > > Discussions on Usenet are kept manageable (an arguable point) by being > grouped into general subject-area forums, called "newsgroups". There is > a newsgroup called comp.databases.informix that is dedicated to technical > topics related to Informix. Usenet articles are distributed among the > various participating systems by background news software. > > The Informix Mailing List, informix-list, is an e-mail discussion list > based at a single system at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. > It operates using standard e-mail. > > The distinction between the two forums is somewhat blurred because they > carry the same content. Part of the software that operates the mailing > list acts as a "gateway" that links the mailing list and c.d.i. Each > mail message sent to the list is also posted to c.d.i, and each news > article posted to c.d.i is also sent out to the mailing list. > > Hope this helps, > > Walt. > > -- > Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu (IP 170.140.97.4) > Emory University UUCP: {...,gatech,rutgers,uunet}!emory!rmy!walt > 954 Gatewood Road, NE BITNET: walt@EMORY > Atlanta, GA 30329 USA Voice: +1 404 727 0648