>I am getting bored of changing their addresses (we are "by owner" and
>"validate all") every second moment, especially because the old
>addresses still work fine in the other direction, in spite of the
>changes (moreover, most of these From: adresses tend to fail in the
>other direction...)
 
Then they are clearly the ones who should fix their gateway.
 
>* Is it possible to have some kind of pattern matching when checking
>  the identity of From: and the list members?
 
No.
 
>* Is it possible to strip any explicit gateways and replace the % by @?
>  This would already solve many cases...
 
No.
 
>* Is it possible to have an alias database in Listserv? The list would
>  contain the primary address to send list mail to, and the alias file
>  would contain (for each primary address) all acceptable source
>  addresses for 'private'. This would:
>  + be most flexible
>  + reduce the need to add/delete/change the primary addresses
 
Add all the possible addresses for all these people to the list and set
all but one to NOMAIL.
 
>Any comments???
 
Get rid of X.400 :-)
 
  Eric