Due to the numerous ways addresses can be rewritten by gateways, a
wildcard match is done. Actually this particular check is to prevent
mailing loops in case a broken mailer somehow delivers the original
message back to the sender (possibly through mail forwarding). With the
duplicate mail suppression code it is no longer needed. You can edit it
out of LSVXMAIL, or use some other trick like setting the IETFHDR option
on the USS-L subscription to RUSS-L.
Eric