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Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:46:09 -0700
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:23:51 -0800, Brett Watts <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Is there a way to make the name of the list appear in the TO: line of
>the message instead of the email address of the list?  

No.  To do so would be a violation of internet email Standard RFC822 (and the
newer RFC2822).  LISTSERV generally will obey all applicable internet email
standards and will not allow you to do something non-standard like this.  This
standard requires there be a (syntactically) valid email address in the To:
and From: fields of any email message.  The From: address represents the
author of the message.  The To: field contains the List-Address.  There may
also (optionally) be a descriptive name (such as the List title in To: and the
user's name in From:) in addition to the required email address.

Even if you could cause LISTSERV to do this, most anti-spam filters will
discard the email as malformed (non-standard and therefore likely to be spam)
so many of your messages won't get delivered.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:12:00 -0000, S Lamido
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>When a subscriber hits the reply button only the words London Activists appears in the To: line

If/when this occurs, it is strictly a function of the user's email client
program (typically a Microsoft mail client such as yours:
 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437)
and has nothing to do with any settings in LISTSERV.

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