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Re: MISC quirks


Penio Penev:
   The reason is much simpler. There was a mail loop at some time last
   year, that was really annoying. It could have been prevented, among
   other things, by forbidding submissions by non-subscribers. The
   policy has been changed since then.

Ahh!  That explains why I didn't get a bounce message explaining that
I couldn't send to the list from this email address.

Um... a better solution (in my opinion) would have been to put a block
on the specific address which was causing the mail loop.  This limits
the damage without limiting the list as a whole.

Thanks,

Raul Miller