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Re: [TCLUG:15996] FAQ - Posting, helping newbies?



Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com> writes:

> Quoting Ben Beuchler (insyte@emt-p.org):
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone have any wonderful ideas on how to help newbies when it comes to
> > > posting to the list?
> > 
> > I'm guessing from previous experimentation on my part that you are using
> > vanilla ezmlm.  If you upgrade to ezmlm-idx (a drop-in upgrade)
> > subscribers will be able to add other machines themselves in this format:
> > 
> > tclug-list-allow-subscribe-user=isp.com@mn-linux.org
> 
> We are running ezmlm-idx. The problem is the newbie does not know what their
> from address is. So, this won't really help them.

Couldn't you write a script for ezmlm that would send back the headers to
them, or even filter out the From line so they know what address ezmlm thinks
they're coming from?
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Jon Schewe 
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