Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Fri, 20 Nov 1987 19:07 SET
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>Actually RFC822 already contains a place for the distribution list: In the To
>line put in something like: To: TheoryNet-List: joeuser@moouniv ; Some mail
>that I receive from some lists on the arpanet actually contains this. If mail
>is going to a named distribution list put int the listname: ; around to the
>To, if it is private, then don't. If only others would use this. Of course an
>alternative is to use the unregistered Newsgroups: tag used in usenet
> Victor Miller -- IBM Research
Not quite. First, the whole point in distribution lists is to avoid long
headers (well that's one of the main points at least). For LINKFAIL, you'd get
some 800 lines of header and 10 lines of text, which is definitely not what
you want :-) Second, the Crosswell mailer doesn't support this feature of
RFC822, and I'm afraid that a bunch of user agents don't either. Granted, they
should get fixed but this is not mine to decide. Finally, this doesn't solve
the problem of getting hundreds of "*Mail sent to..." from the various
crosswell mailers in the network, or getting the mail marked as being from
you, etc.
Eric
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