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(off-topic) Re: forwarding to the list.

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From: Daniel Reish <dreish@xxxxxxxx>
To: Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: (off-topic) Re: forwarding to the list.
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 06:39:41 -0500 (EST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199701041130.GAA01809@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Richard Coleman wrote:

> I think the mailing list manager thought this was
> a subscription request, so I don't think it got
> through.  So I'm forwarding it to the list.

More likely, it won't pass through mail sent by root.  There seems to be
an increasing effort by authors of mail software to clamp down on this
sort of behavior.  (Qmail, for example, refuses to deliver any mail to a
root mailbox, though I suspect this is for security reasons.)

--
Dan

References:
- forwarding to the list.
  - From: Richard Coleman

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