In message <199704250257.AA13870@???>, Michelle Dick writes:
> And how would the list owner set the level of matching on their list
> and tune it over time without access to the MTA or the sysadmin of the
> site? I.e. set it to exact, or medium matching, etc?
I have never proposed that Exim should have such complex facilities.
I merely tried to point out how much can be achieved with the features
that Exim already has (forwardfile, regexps and string arguments that
allow arbitrary expressions for director bypass), and how if those
existing facilities were implemented more orthogonally then uses such
as those I suggested would become available without any mailing-list-
specific coding.
Notice how I never proposed that a special mailing-list director be
created, because that doesn't interest me as much as having greater
inherent capability in Exim's generic features.
> > [I'm not knocking MLMs, just praising Exim's list explosion model.]
>
> Likewise, I think exim is cool and the features you suggest of merit.
> Just not useful for mailing lists, except for small lists with
> well-behaved readers and little outside abuse.
I agree. :-)
Rich.
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