From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Raeburn To: Paul Derbyshire Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already! Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:12:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3.0.6.32.19990201010831.00880950@pop.netaddress.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-01/msg00492.html Paul Derbyshire writes: > Trouble is, it seems you can post to the list using just "egcs@cygnus.com", It's not unheard of for a site to have a local alias that points to a remote mailing list, especially if, say, a news/mail gateway is situated at that machine (so that "posts" may automatically be routed by email to that machine, where some spam filter might be installed), or the machine used to host the list before it moved (so that people may have the old address saved away somewhere, and old versions of the software may refer to it in documentation). The latter is the case here. Getting annoyed at such sites isn't going to do you much good. Find some way to match on the alternate addresses; they're usually few in number. Me, I look for something like egcs@[-a-zA-Z0-9.]*cygnus.com in the to or cc lines. (The long list of characters is to avoid matching whitespace and thus span multiple addresses.) But I see the incoming mail headers (at my site) currently also have: Mailing-List: contact egcs-help@egcs.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: owner-egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list egcs@egcs.cygnus.com that you could look for. And the envelope-sender address (also known as a "From " header -- that's "from" with a trailing space and *NO* colon -- in the UNIX/sendmail world) also indicates that it's from the egcs list, but I don't know if your mailer will make that info available to you. Ken