At 1:03 PM -0600 2/5/08, mjn wrote:
>Hello all!
>
>I have a question regarding the various header options available to
>subscribers. The scenario is this:
>
>LIST-A
>LIST-B
>
>user1
>user2
>
>User1 is a member of LIST-A and LIST-B, she can post to either.
>User2 is on LIST-B and is allowed to post to LIST-A. User1 has an
>important message for users on LIST-A and LIST-B so she sends out a
>note with both lists in the 'To:' field. User2 was in the same
>meeting and see the message come across from LIST-B but, in looking
>at the default display of headers, doesn't see LIST-A in the 'To:'
>field so he forwards the message on to LIST-A thus getting it sent
>to the same group twice and likely annoying many.
>
>None of the HDR settings seem to alleviate this problem.

The IETFHDR subscription option sounds like it is what you're looking
for.  Searching the LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L archives for IETFHDR should
turn up some previous discussions of this subscription option.

>Why is it that in a message sent to a list with multiple entries in
>the 'To:' comes across to list members as only being sent to the
>list?

Often it is problematic for people not subscribed to a list to be
involved in list discussion -- they won't have a way to 'unsubscribe'
from the discussion the way standard list subscribers can and they
may not even be allowed to post to the list depending on how it's set
up.
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