Re: Mailing list policy

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman at IMC.ORG>]

At 4:54 PM -0400 5/20/01, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> When you are the maintainer of a list

That assumes that someone is the maintainer of the IETF mailing list. 
At this moment, that is not the case. You are asking that an 
additional  task be put on one of the IETF Secretariat folks. That's 
a reasonable request (and one that I would second), but it is not 
based in current reality.

>  > Quite a few IETFers have more than one email address.
>
> Which is why Majordomo lets you have a seperate list of addresses that
> can post but don't get the mail. Works beautifully.

No, it works clumsily. It requires that someone who wants to post 
from a different address than the one they are subscribed to must 
somehow register the alternate address with the list maintainer. Or 
that the list maintainer must write custom software that enhances the 
list of allowed-to-post addresses with guesses like "if there is a 
subscription for foo+listname at bar.com, also allow foo at bar.com; if 
there is a subscription for foo at bar1.bar2.com, also allow 
foo at bar2.com". But that will still miss people who are subscribed 
from foo at homemail.com but posting from foo at workmail.com.

(And, yes, I've written such code for the lists IMC and VPNC runs; it 
is available on request.)

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium