[9839] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: www-talk configuration (Re: Message from WEBER at BCRVM1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy T. Fielding)
Mon Mar 11 19:13:49 1996
To: "Gregory J. Woodhouse" <gjw@wnetc.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:17:02 PST."
<Pine.SGI.3.91.960311131139.11481B-100000@shellx.best.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:29:07 -0800
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ics.uci.edu>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> The problem is tht www-talk is not configured correctly. To guard against
> incidents like this one, a mail server should *not* set the From: field
> to the listname, but insted should have
>
> From: owner-listname
> Reply-to: listname
> Errors-to: owner-listname
> Precedence: list
No, that isn't how mail systems work. Suffice it to say that the
www-<lists> already do everything possible to prevent such problems
without interfering with authoring and reply process, but people
persist in writing STUPID mail handlers which ignore every
requirement of Internet mail.
In this case, the guilty party is IBM and one of their bitnet gateways.
It isn't my job any more, but I went ahead and unsubscribed the
offender and put them on the permanent reject list. We will not
be receiving any more problems from that address.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
