>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