Wassercrats
09-29-2006, 08:33 PM
For over a year I've had this (http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19149) problem subscribing to a W3C mailing list. I emailed the service desk as it says in that thread and I think I was told that my emails to the mailing list were being received but not responded to. Recently I investigated further, and here's the reply I received from someone on the W3C Systems Team.The problem is that our mailing list software (smartlist) refuses
to reply to mail from email addresses that start with 'mail@',
because it assumes such messages are from other automated mail
systems, and replying could trigger a dangerous mail loop.
The only solution for now is for list maintainers to process
these sub/unsub requests manually; I have done so in this case.
(added mail - at - polisource.com to www-validator.) Unfortunately you
will be unable to post to the list from that address, sorry.
We should probably consider removing this feature from our list
software.So after all these years, now I know not to use a mail@ address.
to reply to mail from email addresses that start with 'mail@',
because it assumes such messages are from other automated mail
systems, and replying could trigger a dangerous mail loop.
The only solution for now is for list maintainers to process
these sub/unsub requests manually; I have done so in this case.
(added mail - at - polisource.com to www-validator.) Unfortunately you
will be unable to post to the list from that address, sorry.
We should probably consider removing this feature from our list
software.So after all these years, now I know not to use a mail@ address.