> I noticed a couple of names showing up on my parent/teens mailing
> list (apt@znyx.com) that are obviously aliases. For example,
> apt@xxx.com. Is there any way to tell, short of e-mailing to
> that address, what it is going to? It could be an archive,
> or a newsgroup feed, or just someone with their own domain sorting
> e-mail that way.
>
> Anybody have a good strategy for this?
Dear Alan,
At my list, I have a large number of local lists subscribing to the list.
It's always hard to tell. After a while, I stopped bothering; most of the
subscribed lists or aliases expanded to a number of local people who
were interested in the list, and found out it's more efficient to receive
the postings once per site instead of dozens. I even had users who asked
permission to subscribe an entire class during one semester to my list
by using an alias; better than all students subscribing separately and
half of them forgetting to unsub after the term is over... So, although
you never know the PERSONS subscribed (it's hard to tell anyhow with
thousands of subscribers), I even tend to like it. By the way, every
person can automatically archive all messages, send copies to hundreds
of other e-mail addresses, or feed the messages to a newsgroup. No way
whatsoever to find out in advance. My strategy: allow it; maybe put
a warning in the subscription message; watch complaints carefully (I had
some mailbombs by spammers subscribing my list to other lists, takes a
while to find out the first time...) and act on complaints fast before
people start complaining to the list.
Kind regards,
Alexander Verbraeck
List Manager BPR-L, DYNMOD-L
> --------------------------------
> Alan Deikman, ZNYX Corporation
> alan@znyx.com
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