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From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Oct 9 22:16:55 2003

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> > But would it be feasable to have the mailing list software
> > automatically put a "non-member submission" addition in their subject
> > line? "[NMS]"

Or...maybe replacing the From: email address in the archive emails with
the list email address hasn't worked as well as folks thought it might?

> How about bouncing their message back with a note indicating that they
> are responding to a crusty old message that isn't even relevant anymore
> and that they should pay more attention next time.

The XFree86 mailing list auto-sends an email the first time someone posts
to the list (even if not a subscriber) to let the sender know that the
address they mailed is a mailing list. It seems to work very well.

-Toth
Received on Thu Oct 09 2003 - 22:16:55 BST