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Re: Join my network on LinkedIn

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jan 8 19:54:45 2013

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:54:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <50EC81B6.3040209@blakjak.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>

> I'm amazed that the NANOG mailing list doesn't simply reject email from
> non-subscribed addresses. I didn't realise that this was so difficult,
> considering it's an out-of-box Mailman feature to be able to arrange
> exactly that.

In fact, for many years, you had to be subscribed to nanog-post in order to
post to nanog (old timers will remember when I ran afoul of that, after 
Katrina :-}); I presume it wasn't reimplemented when the lists were rehosted
several years ago.

Cheers,
-- jra
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