List changes? Receiving messages "to" me?

[Derek Atkins]

I'd rather you punish the innocent AOL subscribers... Or maybe make
the list only send out the 'To' to AOL subscribers... Or give the
rest of us a way to turn it off.  This breaks SO MANY list filters
it's not funny!

PLEASE change it back.

-derek

Quoting John Abreau <john.abreau-3flU0AWMlV4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:

>
>
> 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
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>
>



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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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