From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 12:18:36 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: A MODEST PROPOSAL (fwd)
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From:	IN%"stewarts@ix.netcom.com"  "Bill Stewart" 13-APR-1996 02:38:40.77

>>From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
>>	In other words, majordomo is broken. I should have suspected as much,

>No, it's not broken, it just interacts badly with anon.penet.fi.
>Of the two of them, majordomo is doing the obvious unsurprising thing,
>while anon.penet.fi needs a bit more complicated support because of
>difficulties with its implication and the workarounds it uses.
>Somebody did comment that they modified majordomo to handle this,
>but presumably vanilla majordomo can at least pattern-match block an######,
>and if it can't, you can always pre-process with egrep or sed.

	The reason I say majordomo is broken is that it shows up with the
address of the original sender, not the address of the list, as the From
address. Other mailing list software does not do this.
	-Allen