On Mon, 23 Mar 1992 14:50:29 EST Michael Harpe said: >... >I have a list defined with the keyword Send= Private set. We are a site that >is on both BITNET and the Internet. Our mail system is changing our local >addresses from someone@ulkyvm to [log in to unmask] before sending >them to LISTSERV. I have set MYDOMAIN = 'ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU' in LOCAL >SYSVARS. > >The trouble is, people who are subscribed as someone@ulkyvm in the list >cannot post to the list with Send= Private set. If I change their entry >to [log in to unmask], it works. Shouldn't the two forms be >synonomous in this case? >... I have been trying to follow the discussion of this thread on the list because I'm looking for the answer to the same question about senders at sites _other_ than where the list is hosted. My issue is not about the proper way to define 'Local' on my server, but rather about e-mail addresses which may be functionally equivalent, but which make the sender unrecognizeable as a subscriber. I see LISTSERV refusing to accept a posting to a private list from a subscriber with a domain-style address, when the list entry for the subscriber has a BITNET address. (Or not recognizing the 'equivalence' of two domain-style addresses.) For example: the posting has >From: [log in to unmask] the list has subscr@HOST - or - the posting has >From: [log in to unmask] the list has [log in to unmask] I have assumed that it was not reasonable to expect LISTSERV to know in the examples above that 'subscr' was really a subscriber. My naive response to these problems has been to recommend that the list owner change the entry for the subscriber to match what would be appearing in the e-mail 'From' entry. Is there, in fact, something better that I could do to have it recognize these equivalences? /Hobart Braden