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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Help! Strange people are getting email I send out.
Message-ID: <33848@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:50:24 GMT
Reply-To: joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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I run a mailing list, which currently has about 170 addresses in it.
I handle this by passing a file with all the addresses in it to 
/usr/lib/sendmail on a slightly overloaded Sun 3/280 running SunOS 3.5.
(Please don't hassle me about underpowered machines or stone age
operating systems. :-)

The problem is that every dozen or so postings, I get email from some
random person asking why they got a posting from the mailing list.
These people are not on the mailing list at all, and I have no idea
why they are getting postings.  As far as I know, no one has gotten
a posting more than once.  Does anyone know what is causing this?

Is there some information on running large mailing lists?  (Is 170
addresses a large list?)  

Thanks for any help.

Joshua Levy (joshua@atherton.com)  (408) 734-9822


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