> >One thing that would benefit both the email and web interfaces that as > >far as I know L-Soft isn't planning is a way to feed LISTSERV > >information about the equivalence of email addresses. > > This feature has been available in the 1.8d beta since approx Feb 1998. > (and no we do not yet have a final release date for 1.8d but the latest 09/98 > build includes a lot of new things.) > > From the forthcoming 1.8d Release Notes: > > LISTSERV 1.8d introduces support for a centralized list (called ALIASES NAMES) > of synonymous Internet hostnames. The main purpose is to address problems with > ISPs where the "From:" line is rewritten from (say) "[log in to unmask]", which is > what Joe wanted, to "[log in to unmask]", "[log in to unmask]", > "[log in to unmask]" and so forth, where "alpha", "beta" and so on are known > machine names (with the understanding that they may add machines from time to > time) and "joe" is the same in all cases. In this way it is possible for > LISTSERV to match [log in to unmask] with his actual subscribed address of > [log in to unmask] or any of the other cluster hosts in his domain. > > This can also handle a situation where an ISP changed name and for instance > "[log in to unmask]" is rewritten to "[log in to unmask]". However this does not > handle "[log in to unmask]" -> "[log in to unmask]" and the like. Yes, and that last situation is the one that we have. We need to be able to tell LISTSERV that [log in to unmask] is the same as [log in to unmask] This cannot be done through a simple mapping of host names.