>REPLY TO 06/12/87 12:39 FROM [log in to unmask]: Re: possible solution >for usenet-listserv peering > >>Seems to me that getting all of the other-net list mailers to implement >>a complete solution would be difficult. >> >right on! > >>Perhaps a satisfactory alternative that is implemented totally within >>LISTSERV would be to allow lists to be declared "subserviant" in addition >>to peered. A subserviant list would have a "master" on another >>network. Mail traffic apparently from the master (identified by either >>which network it came from, or which user from a list of possibilities, >>or...) would be distributed as per normal. Mail traffic not from the >>master (probably meaning from a Bitnet host) would be forwarded to >>the master AND NOT DISTRIBUTED. (I assume we'll catch a copy returned >>by the master and distribute that.) >> >>-JSFisher >> >I love it! Sounds a lot like the Editor= option which is already implemented in LISTSERV. Harold...