[TowerTalk] Bad e-mail address

[Joe Subich, K4IK]

> I'm confused...What difference does it make whether he subscribed 
> from the address or an alias.  The admistrator should still 
> be able to delete him from the subscription list.

The MailMan software does not know about the alias and thus the 
administrator CAN NOT FIND the "bad" address.  For example, if 
I used the alias K4IK at arrl.net and had it pointed to my_email at hotmail.com 
then cancelled "my_email at hotmail.com" but failed to unsubscribe 
K4IK at arrl.net from this list, any postings would be sent to "K4IK at arrl.net" 
The ARRL.NET server will strip "K4IK at arrl.net" from the header of the 
mailing list messages, substitute "my_email at hotmail.com" and send the 
message along. 

Unfortunately, when hotmail.com receives the message for user "my_email" 
it finds that account does not exist and sends an error message to the 
originator of the e-mail which, in this case, is the person who posted 
the ORIGINAL MESSAGE TO THE LIST.  

Even if the errors went to the list administrator, the administrator 
could do nothing about them since the list administrator has no way 
of knowing which e-mail address (it doesn't necessarily have to be an 
arrl.net address, there are other alias servers) is the alias for the 
bad address. 

73, 

   ... Joe, K4IK