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Subject: Re: Best Mailing List Software For A Host Startup
From: Merrill Cook <mcook @ ecunet . org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:24:06 -0500 (EST)
To: Berg <berg @ eskimo . com>
Cc: brad @ his . com, list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199610300735.XAA03817@eskimo.com> from "Berg" at Oct 29, 96 11:35:25 pm

>From Berg:
> 
> 	Well, Majordomo has a nasty little bug in it.  When sending out a post,
> it starts at the top of the subscriber list, and if it hits a bad address
> halfway down the list, it aborts, then starts over.  On a large list, this
> can mean that half a dozen bad addresses out of 500 subscribers can cut off
> 400 of them.

Majordomo passes =one= copy of the note to the MTA, which
processes it to the list.  It sounds like you are describing behavior
of the MTA, not Majordomo.

-- 
  Regards,

  Merrill Cook 
  Louisville KY 
  mcook@pcusa.org     or MERRILL COOK on Ecunet/PresbyNet
  http://www.pcusa.org/pcusa.html
      -+-


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