On Tue, 6 Jul 1993 13:27:01 EST Nathan Brindle said:
>Try
>
>* Owner= <Your Address>
>* Owner= QUIET:
>* Owner= <His Address>
>
>I think that's how it works....
 
 Yup, that will work just fine.  This is probably an opportune moment to
 explain something that can be confusing.  When a keyword is listed more
 than once in a list header, the values are concatenated together in the
 order they appear in the file.  So that, using the template above to
 form a sample segment of a header, we could have something like,
 
 
 * Owner= jimj@jhuvm
 * Owner= quiet:
 * Owner= xyz@foobar
 
 which would be equivalant to coding,
 
 * Owner= jimj@jhuvm,quiet:,xyz@foobar
 
 for those of you that like to smash things together. :)  Now for
 the source of the confusion.  The following does *not* mean the
 same thing.
 
 * Owner= jimj@jhuvm (Jim Jones),quiet:,xyz@foobar (Someone Else)
 
 Why?  Just because... *hehe*  But seriously, here's why.
 
 In order to allow one header line to specify values for multiple
 keywords, the value assigned to a keyword is the first blank delimited
 word after the '=' sign.  So, in the example above, the "Owner" keyword
 is assigned the value "jimj@jhuvm" and the remainder of the line is
 treated as a comment.  So, in header lines that look like,
 
 * Owner= jimj@jhuvm (Jim Jones)
 * Owner= Quiet::
 * Owner= xyz@foobar (Someone Else)
 
 the names that appear to the right of the addresses are, in fact,
 ignored by LISTSERV.  If you want to condense the records into fewer
 lines, you have to extract only the information that LISTSERV wants,
 then separate those elements by commas.
 
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 -jj