[142744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Jul 12 12:38:10 2011
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E1C74EE.2030002@2mbit.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:37:49 -0400
To: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> Looks like parts of the received like are still there, though =
butchered and mashed in (most likely in a non-RFC compliant manner) with =
the one added by 'bulk_maler v1.13' (great name for the mailer, btw, =
sets off my spammy sense something fierce).
You seem to be new here.
bulk_mailer was something used back in the day to workaround limitations =
in sendmail for those people operating majordomo (and those using smail =
etc). it broke the chunks into something that sendmail would then =
allocate multiple processes to. most other mail subsystems can handle =
the multiple-rcpts in different manners.
while it may 'feel' spammy to you, it's certainly not.
a simple google of "majordomo and bulk_mailer" should give you a good =
idea of what's going on.
there were a lot of other mail systems that served to help integrate and =
interoperate back in the day, including qmailer, smail, etc that all =
attempted to replace sendmail, including providing the uucp interaction =
necessary for those behind dialup.
either way, please try to keep the feedback off-list for now as we =
undergo this transition. It's hard to move a large list like this =
without trouble. I've been party to many such list moves in the past =
and they usually have all sorts of trouble.
admins@nanog.org is the right place for your feedback right now.
- Jared=
