On  3 Feb 97, Randy Holder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hope it's ok to ask this here and it is not a faq. I tried checking the faq
> and didn't see it.
>
> Ok here's the situation:
>
> I manage two listserv lists; both are closed to the public and are for our
> staff.  List A is the larger more general list.  List B is a specialized
> group of staff and therefore is a subset of list A. I want persons on List
> B to receive posts from List A in addition to normal posts. So, I've
> subscribed List B to List A. This eliminates the need to subscribe new
> hires to both lists.
>
> This works well except that when List B distributes a post that was
> originally sent to List A, it replaces the reply-to: header with its own
> reply-to address.  So no one on list B can tell which list the post came
> from. That causes another problem. If someone on list B replies to the
> post, it only get's distributed on list B.

Why not make List A a super-list which includes list B as a sublist?

Then you subscribe people to either List A or List B. When you send
mail to List A it goes to both sets of subscribers; when you send to
List B it only goes to List B. Replies should work as needed.

Francoise