[Mailman-Developers] Potential risk of VERP?

Marc MERLIN marc_news@vasoftware.com
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:05:08 -0800


On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:24:08PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> - foo@yahoogroups.com gets disabled, thus shutting off a large list of
>   recipients.
> 
> Or will/should yahoogroups rewrite the envelope sender for /its/
> downstream members?

yahoogroups should rewrite the envelope sender to catch the bounces
themselves.
If they don't, they deserve to be unsubscribed.
(in other words  fan out lists setup without the  approval and collaboration
of  the original  list owner  should  be show  up  as one  user, and  handle
whatever problems they  may have on their side without  having bounces go to
you)

Marc
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