This is the time to tell a DYSfunctional business group that they have to
follow proper procedure.  Having you modify a message under another
identity (the name of the publication) is inherently a breach of security.
It is not "best practice".  If they want a change before it gets approved,
have them modify their original and resend.  They have to send the extra
announcement by some means, anyway.  Why is it so much trouble for them to
do it the right way?  It is obviously a lot of trouble to do it the wrong
way.  If you do this, it will probably come back to haunt you in additional
"bad procedure" requests, or maybe even claims that some future snafu is
your fault.

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret J. Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:31 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: editing a confirmed message


Ok.  Let me try to better explain why I submitted the question.  I'm not
attempting to change subscribers' comments.

Every week I send out a Table of Contents (TOC) to about 84,000 folks on an
announcement list.  I send it to the list via a BLAT program so that I still
get to confirm it, but instead of saying that it comes from me, it says that
it comes from the actual name of the publication.  Some weeks the marketing
department wants to put in an extra announcement at the top of the TOC, and
if they forget to put it in, they think I can add it after I receive the
email asking me to confirm it.  This cannot be done with LISTSERV I found
out.  Instead they have to resubmit the TOC with the additional text to the
BLAT and it comes out just as they planned.

So, no underhanded, deviousness going on here!  Just a functional issue.

Margaret J. Brandt
MMS/NEJM
Technology Projects Coordinator
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Parker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: editing a confirmed message


> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:38:57 PST, Peter Rauch
<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Actually, it would not be very nice at all if LISTSERV allowed an
> >editor to basically forge the contents of a message. So, I hope my
> >interpretation of how LISTSERV editing works is correct!
>
> Exactly.  This is why LISTSERV will never change the From: field (which
> identifies the original author of a message) and also why the From:
address of a
> list message is never the List-Address  (LISTNAME@...).   Neither LISTSERV
nor
> the List can be the author of a list message.  Some person is always the
author.
> LISTSERV is merely performing a service of easily and rapidly
re-distributing
> the mail authored by some person to a list of interested subscribers.
(This is
> also why the List-Address is the To: field of all List Mailings.)
>
> See also our FAQ  http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/lsv-faq.stm#5.14
>