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The dos and don'ts of mailing lists:

*DO* create the following aliases for your list:

	list-request: to point at you or a group of people who
		      administer the list.

	owner-list:   some people / mailers use this address, if
		      it exists, to report errors.  Sendmail is
		      one such mailer, if I recall.

*DO* make an attempt to set the return-path of mail sent to that
list to list-request.  Note that the return path is an address
kept in the ENVELOPE of a message, a part that should not be viewed
by the everyday user.  With sendmail, you would probably have to do
something like the following in your aliases file:

list:	"|/usr/lib/sendmail -flist-request real-list"
real-list:	:include:/usr/local/mlists/list

The benefit is that many bounces involving the list that would
otherwise go to the original sender will now be redirected to the
administrators (who can presumably do something about the error).

One caveat: In the above example, messages sent from the machine that
contains the list will not get their return path set correctly.  This
has to do with sendmail's security mechanisms.

*DON'T* muck with the From:, Sender:, or Reply-to: lines.  Each of
these lines has specific purposes, as mentioned in RFCs 822 and 1123.
-- 
Eliot Lear
[lear@turbo.bio.net]