moderation bounces

[Ben Rosengart]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:06:06AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> It's kind of half a bug and half a feature.
> 
> There are two basic ways of handling this.  One can either send the mail
> as the news admin, or parse the From header and lift the address up into
> the envelope sender.  The latter will let the user get the bounce
> directly, but given the very widespread use of undeliverable addresses on
> Usenet right now, it also means that many messages may get rejected by
> spam filters for having an unresolvable envelope sender.  Moderators tend
> to get upset at sites that take that approach because they get blamed for
> the missing articles and it's hard for the user to work around.

Bah humbug.  Panix supports plus-addressing, so our users have no
excuse for munging in ways that keeps replies/bounces from being
deliverable.
 
> INN has always used the news user as the envelope sender largely because
> it's just easier, but given the problems with the other approach, we'll
> probably keep doing that.  I wouldn't be adverse to having an option to do
> it the other way, for those sites that want to, but it would need to have
> a lot of warnings explaining the problems with that approach.

So we're on our own, but if we do implement this, there's a good
chance you'll take our code.  Ok, thanks for the information.

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