[Mailman-Users] Implicit Destination?

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Tue Jan 18 18:42:35 CET 2000


Quoting John Wingenbach (jwing at pliantsystems.com):
> HELP!
> 
> I have set up mailman to handle our lists and now I am getting the
> admins asking what this implicit destination thing is.  Asking why they
> have to approve this message.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me as to the meaning of this?

It means that the address of the list didn't appear in either the From: or the
Cc: header.  Legitimate users of mailing lists rarely if ever Bcc: to the
list, so this "implicit destination" thing takes care of a lot of spam.

-- 
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