--- Question about send=private. - Torino, 1995-07-20 At least for one of the main uses of LISTSERV (discussion among real persons, not among collective beings), I try to discourage local redistribution: unless the list is defined "everything PUBLIC", this may prevent users from sending commands to LISTSERV (at least for self-control of their subscription; but, for lists offering something more than mail distribution, GETtting files, archive searching &c). Nothing to object, of course, to users who prefer a quiet "read-only" status: but if and when they begin to write to the list, I suggest them to subscribe and get out of the local redistribution list (I think, please correct me, that for LISTSERV is quite the same thing to send to one or to ten users, when they are at the same address). About "rules" for accepting addresses "quite similar" to what subscription shows, I think this has to be left to postmasters: probably they already do their best (or should) for identifying users in outgoing mail with simple inequivocal addresses, screening to the outside world the intricacies and idiosincracies of their local configuration. <-- Eugenio Gatto (CIDEM, Politecnico di Torino, Italia) (list owner [log in to unmask])