On 7/6/2006 11:26, Stan Horwitz wrote:
  > Listserv already has a built-in alias. This is what I believe Ben
> referred to. You do not need to do anything special to use the alias. 
> You just send email to it. The alias is all-request. Details are in the 
> LISTSERV Site Maintainer's Guide in section 17.3.2.

Correction: LISTSERV has built-in support for the alias all-request. That does
not mean that the alias exists on every LISTSERV host.

In some environments, the LISTSERV maintainer must explicitly create this alias.
We have chosen not to create this alias, because there is no practical way to
protect is from abuse. We have, instead, created an announcement list for list
owners. When we need to send a message to all list owners, we run a script to
update the list, then post the message to the list.

-- 
Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame
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