[Mailman-Users] mailing to maillist + others

[Steve Campbell]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Steve Campbell wrote:
>   
>> I have set up a notification list for a department here. A member sent a 
>> notice to the list and also included some other people in the CC fields. 
>>     
> <snip>
>   
>> Is there some way I can allow that to go through without a complaint and 
>> why would that be a problem to mailman?
>>     
>
>
> Set Privacy options...->Recipient filters->max_num_recipients to 0 if
> you want to allow any number of addresses in To: and Cc:, or to some
> large number if you want to limit it to that many.
>
> This setting exists for two reasons.
>
> It is/was an anti-spam measure as many messages with large numbers of
> recipients are or in the past were spam.
>
> It also allows you to decide whether you want to accept a post that
> exposes possibly unrelated Cc: addresses to the list members.
>
>   

Mark,

Thanks very much.

I see what you mean by the exposure, and I will try to talk this person 
out of using so many addresses in any post (which is why we set up the 
mailling list in the first place). I could probably create an umbrella 
thingy here to better do what they want to do in the future.

Steve