Notification Problems

Forum: HyperNews Bugs
Date: 1996, Feb 24
From: Guanshan Tong

There is a posting in "Intsruction Page":

"I'm an administrator and set up the HyperNews site. Once the messages began coming in, I realized that I was getting a copy of all the messages to my e-mail box. I figured that I needed to unsubscribe to each base articale. I did that, but I am still receiving copies of each posting. Help! This thing is going to take over my In Box if I don't figure this out. "

Then, I posted a "bug" report:

I also had the same problem.
But, I found this maybe a bug in add-lib.pl. Whether it is a bug or not depends on how you think of that.
In add-lib.pl, there is a var. $bccaddress. And whenever a response is posted, a copy will be bcc'ed to the first (listed first in admin list) administrator.
I found this was anonying. I turned it off by doing this: in add-lib.pl, line 512 (v1.9B5.1):
local($bccaddress) = join(", ", @list);
I changed it into:
local($bccaddress) = "" ;
After that, I don't have that problem.
I hope this can be fixed in future version, since this is really "anonying".

Then, I reported another problem:

In the previos posting, I mentioned a "bug" and the solution is to trun off $bccaddress.
Turning off $bccaddress should not upset the regular email notification to subscribers. However, the regular eamil notificaton is not working now.
In sub notifySubscribers { ..} in add-lib.pl, it seems that: when the notification is constructed, $toaddress is set to "HyperNews"; and $bccaddress seems to have addresses of people who are regular subscriber (except this should include the adminstrators, i.e, this kind of email should not be bcc'ed to administrators).
This way is too strange. Why not just let $toaddress to be the addresses of subscribers ?
Is this a design problem or another bug ?

Guanshan Tong