🚀 go-pugleaf

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) writes:
> >
> >I run a mailing list, which currently has about 170 addresses in it.
>
> >The problem is that every dozen or so postings, I get email from some
> >random person asking why they got a posting from the mailing list.
>
>   Most likely some of your recipient addresses are themselves mailing
> lists which redistribute the mail.  

I asked the list if they were doing this, and no one spoke up.  Furthermore,
the random people who get the postings only seem to get one each, so I
do not think that redistrubution is the problem.   Also, only one or two
of the wrong addresses were at sites where someone else was getting the
mailing list.  If the problem were redistrubtion, I'd expect more at sites
already on the list.

> If they send you a complete copy
> of the mail you might be able to narrow this down by looking at the
> 'Received:' headers.  Then if you and the suspect destination are on
> Internet, you can 'telnet' to the 'smtp' port and use the 'EXPN'
> command to expand the address you are sendingto.

Unforntuately, I'm not on the Internet.  Also, people do not seem to save
the wrong postings they get, and since they never get a second posting, I
have never captured the envelope of one of these wrong postings.  Sigh.

Joshua Levy
(408) 734-9822
joshua@atherton.com