[Mailman-Developers] Re: List-CC?

[Joe Holt]

This is an issue that I would very much like to find a solution for. As
I understand it, most list admins set their lists to not accept email cc'ed or
bcc'ed to the list. Very often I find myself wanting to send an event
announcement or some such to several addresses (at least one of which is a
list) without exposing everyone's email in the 'To:' header. I have to create
a separate email for lists that use Mailman. I have actually never received a
spam through an email list but it must be a problem for so many people to be
taking actions to avoid it. Is it that difficult to verify the headers? What
technical problems are at issue here?


> At 11:32 AM 8/24/2001 -0400, Dale Newfield wrote:
>
> >I've got another fairly simple idea that I figured I'd throw out for
> >comment.  I was about to send a note to an announcement list I run, and
> >thought "hey, I should also send this to Bob."  Problem is, if I CC or BCC
> >Bob, he gets the mail I send to Mailman rather than the mail that Mailman
> >would send out (with the subscription info/footer/etc.)  What would be
> >cool is if there were a way to List-BCC: people instead of BCC:'ing them.
> >Then Mailman would be the one to distribute extra copies, and they could
> >be the same as messages seen by list-subscribers.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds like a setup for a spam relay.
>
> - Ben