At 07:39 AM 11/26/2002 -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
The list admin should add the unsubscribed address to the list of "known email addresses". See item 5 in: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/mail-submit-policy.txt
that's one of the list admin's options. But it turns out that many list admins consider adding a name to a list unbidden is impolite, and choose to not do this either, because they consider it error-prone and potentially insecure. Simply adding the address doesn't check that it is an address someone can send mail *to*, which is something someone replying to the list expects, and it doesn't allow people to reliably trim the CC line - I can usually remove email addresses from the CC line other than the alias itself, and simply reply to the list, but in this case that would cut the person out of the discussion. If there is a clear definition of a member (for example, a member of the IAB), "known addresses" is a useful work-around, but for a list participant, adding his email to the list is pretty much de rigeur. The list moderator asked him to add his email address to the list, and indicated that as a result of doing so his mail would be unmoderated. Is it so hard to do?