[Austin-ghetto-list] Re: Austin-ghetto-list post from jfbaldauf@prodigy.net requires approval

Michael Eisenstadt michaele@ando.pair.com
Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:04:08 -0500


Jim,

Our nifty new maillist redflagged your recent posting for my
poisonal approval. This is done by software. They directed
me to look at it for my approval, disapproval, or differ. I
dont remember what box I checked except I know it wasnt the
approval box.

Their automatically generated explanation of the problem was
the following message:

 Blind carbon copies or other implicit destinations are not allowed. 
Try
 reposting your message by explicitly including the list address in the
To: or
 Cc: fields.

>From looking at what information they supplied it seems like
you were forwarding a picture. It seems like you were also 
cc:ing other addresses in addition to addressing the post to a-g-l.

What blind carbon copies are I have no idear.

Their software doesnt and I anteriorly didnt think it is a good 
thing to cc: to others when posting to a mail list. this is 
especially the case now that NO-ONE can post to the list 
without being subscribed. so if you send the same piece of 
mail to us and to non-subscribers, some of the non-subscriber
recipients might want to say something and they will click on 
Reply: All. then they will get error messages when a-g-l 
bounces their mail. they may not even have realized that 
a-g-l was the addressee. and on and on with other possible
confusion scenarios.

so when you post to a mail list (any mail list, not just 
ours) please DONT add other addresses in the cc: box. 

picture attachments, gifs or jpegs, are of course A-OK.

Mike the manager