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On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Axel Hartmann wrote: > i guess everyone who is posting on the list > is getting auto-replies by jim melton (again). > since he sais he'll be gone for another two weeks, > could we have him unsubscribed so he doesn't > bother everyone? > he said last time it isn't his fault, but > i think it's a nuisance. Jim's problem is that the thinkpad list does not reset the FROM field to the list, so his email client sees the message as from an individual, not from the list. Thus, the auto replies - it's not possible for him to filter his replies so the list doesn't get it because the list doesn't identify itself! While you can certainly argue that this is irrelevant to this point, there are some other worrysome issues - the list does not indicate messages as being from a mailing list AT ALL. No revamped from: address, no X-Mailing-List: header, nothing. The danger there is that if some wiseass subscribed this list to another similarly configured list, they would loop messages forever, over and over again. Lists should contain some clear indication they are lists in order to prevent such mischief.