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In article lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> In article <114962@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@sun.com (Dan Heller) writes:
> >In mush you can do this by setting "no_expand".  Anything you have on the To:
> >line remains untouched.
> 
> YOW! This is not a Good Thing to do. Say your local alias is called foo.
> When someone on the expansion list tries to reply, the reply will go to
> foo@your.domain.  Odds are your MTA will have NO IDEA what foo corresponds

Precisely.  That is the intention.  And it's not uncommon either.  There
are many mailing lists that are supposed to be "one-way" -- that is, the
moderator mails out, but no one can mail to the list.  This is one way to
do that.  Since the alias is not registered with /usr/lib/aliases (or its
equivalent for your MTA) then outside mail to that "alias" at your machine
should be rejected.

>  This can be a pain when you have a large mailing list,
> but it's better to have a painful working list rather than a painless
> broken one.
Obviously, if you want everyone to know who's on the list, then you
don't want to use no_expand.  I believe the original question asked how
to "hide" the list of users from the recipients.

> If you're up to 200 users, why not ask your postmaster to install an
> global system alias for your list?

If the original question was to not hide the list of users, but just
not have the list be so long, then yes, this is the correct solution.

> Thanks for the broken software warning :-)
I hope you think differently about that now.

> Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
>     {alberta,decwrl,ncc}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA
>         If everyone quit smoking, drinking, and buying gas,
>                the nation would probably go bankrupt.

dan <island!argv@sun.com>
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