[Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:48:18 -0500


On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:07:41PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> Not that it is a big deal to me, but out of curiosity: what part of mailman
> cares that it's a list and not a mail alias?

The *user*, when the list machinery breaks completely, and there's no
obvious target address to complain to.

Cheers,
-- jra
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