On Wed, 1 May 1991 10:02:58 EDT "Duane D. Weaver" <WEAVER@OHSTVMA> said:
>Here is one of two responses on the UCLAMAIL list. Any comments Eric?
 
From now on '>' is Leonard Woren and '>>' is Duane:
>> I  believe that  there  is a  problem with  how  ACCESS handles  X-To:
>> records.
>
>The fault is equally LISTSERV's.
 
RFC822 does not assign any meaning  to tags starting with "X-", and never
will. These  tags are reserved  for "user-defined fields".  LISTSERV uses
this field to  place some extra information for the  human reader; ACCESS
uses them  to convey  internal information  to another  program. LISTSERV
also  uses "X-LSVxxx"  fields  to hold  internal  information for  peered
lists. Neither is doing something wrong as far as RFC822 is concerned. If
I had written ACCESS, I would not have used a tag name not containing the
program name/prefix for  internal information, and I  would certainly not
show  such internal  data to  the end  user (what  would you  say if  you
started getting a bunch of "X-LSVxxx:" tags on each and every posting?).
 
  Eric