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Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like some configuration changed on the list recently, > where all messages sent to the list arrive to me with me > explicitly in the "To" field. Um.... How do I turn that off > for me? > The BLU server hosts over 30 lists for various user groups, and we've had problems with a number of AOL users who would report list traffic to AOL and claim it was spam, and BLU.ORG started getting added to various RBL lists as a result. We're assuming these idiots were too lazy to unsubscribe themselves properly, and were using AOL's spam reporting mechanism as an alternative. We signed up for a tracking service that AOL provided so we could see what was being reported, and we used that to remove the offending parties. But then AOL started stripping the offender's identity, so we were unable to determine who to unsubscribe. The changes to Mailman that now send a separate copy to each subscriber were done to make it possible to unsubscribe the offenders. The only other way we could think of to deal with this would be to ban all AOL users from all the lists, which would punish a lot of innocent bystanders. -- John Abreau IT Manager Zuken USA 238 Littleton Rd., Suite 100 Westford, MA 01886 T: 978-392-1777 F: 978-692-4725 M: 978-764-8934 E: John.Abreau-3flU0AWMlV4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org W: www.zuken.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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