Re: user's aliases on the To: line (was: UUnet and munging headers.)

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From: Chris Garrigues
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 14:52

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    From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM
    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 19:31 CDT

    I have hundreds of users on my lists, including UUCP, Internet, BITNET,
    MILNET, EARNET, MCI Mail, CompuServe and elsewhere.  This is what I do:

    	From: Joe Contributor <joeblow@imelda.street.edu>
    	Sender: LEPROSY-REQUEST@bfmny0.BFM.COM
    	Errors-To: LEPROSY-REQUEST@bfmny0.BFM.COM
    	Reply-To: LEPROSY@bfmny0.BFM.COM
    	To: LEPROSY (Hansens Disease Interest Group)

The right thing to do in this case is:

    From: Joe Contributor <joeblow@imelda.street.edu>
    Sender: LEPROSY-REQUEST@bfmny0.BFM.COM
    Errors-To: LEPROSY-REQUEST@bfmny0.BFM.COM
    To: LEPROSY@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Hansens Disease Interest Group)

The :; case is for lists which are user specified (usually in personal
configuration files of one sort or another) and CANNOT be replied to.

Your version works, but it really it is one more line than necessary.
Besides, didn't the original sender provide a TO line that looked like
"LEPROSY@bfmny0.BFM.COM" anyway?

Chris Garrigues,
7thSon@SLCS.SLB.COM

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From: 7thSon@SLCS.SLB.COM (Chris Garrigues)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: user's aliases on the To: line (was: UUnet and munging headers.)
Message-ID: <19900706145229.8.7THSON@GLOWWORM.LispM.SLCS.SLB.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 90 14:52:00 GMT
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