On Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:14:02 EDT Roger Fajman <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
Thanks for the wish list. A few comments:
 
>(5) Messages  sent to all-request should  contain the list name  so that
>bounces can be identified with the list whose owner they are for.
 
Since people often  own multiple lists, duplicates  are eliminated before
the message is sent. So, there isn't  a one to one mapping between owners
and lists. Another problem is  that all-request typically reaches a whole
bunch of people. If each message needs  to contain the list name, you may
end  up  with a  lot  of  small individual  messages  with  a handful  of
recipients each, which take a lot longer to deliver.
 
>(7) When  a message is  sent to  two or more  lists on the  same server,
>users subscribed to  more than one of the lists  should receive only one
>copy of the message.
 
I'm not sure that this is  desirable. For one thing, it isn't consistent:
the results would depend  on whether the lists are on  the same server or
not.  The subscriber  could have  a  filter to  log the  mail in  various
folders based on  which list it comes  from, and in that case  one of the
two folders  would be selected  randomly to  receive the message,  and it
wouldn't be in  the others. Again, while this saves  disk space, it isn't
very consistent. It isn't even consistent with news where, while there is
only one copy of the message, it will be shown in both newsgroups. With a
mail interface this will not be the case.
 
>(13)  LISTSERV messages  in MIME  format  for messages  to list  owners,
>postmasters, and in response to commands.
 
Could you  elaborate on that?  Most of these  messages are plain  text. I
don't see how MIME could enhance, say, "You have been added" messages, or
then the command response messages.
 
  Eric