[Dialogue] cause for bouncing - too many addressees

[Richard Alton]

Thanks, Tim. The internet is so complicated.. thanks for your wisdom

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 9:31 PM Timothy Wegner via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Here's one of my rare posts on using the dialogue and oe mailing lists.
>
> The mailman software does not like you to try and post a message with a
> whole bunch of addresses in addition to the correct list address. I often
> see someone who appears to be sending something to their entire contact
> list. When this happens I can't even tell if they meant the message to go
> to the listserv or not.
>
> The best practice is to include just the list address only, with no other
> addresses. Or, as I am doing with this, to both lists. It's ok to cc just
> one or two people whose attention you need, but I usually don't even do
> that.
>
> Usually when someone is having a problem I intervene and try to help out.
> But there are just not enough hours in the day for me to intervene when an
> attempt is made to send something to a large number of people along with
> the lists. I just let the software fail to post the message and send the
> user an error message,  and I don't  intervene.
>
> Of course I am telling you all this because this has happened a lot lately.
>
> If you have questions or comments please email me personally, and don't
> reply to this message on the list, since while necessary, this is really
> off topic, and I'd like to limit this topic to this one message.
>
> I hope everybody is doing well!
>
> Tim Wegner
> Your usually silent list administrator
>
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