> 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 :-) The named lists feature of RFC822 *allows*, but does not *require*, any or all of the recipients to be listed. Thus, To: Listname:(xyz discussion group); is perfectly valid, and keeps the header short, as desired. If this discussion is to continue, it should be on one list or the other, not both. I'm not on LSTSRV-L, but will join if people think that's the appropriate list. I cc'd LSTSRV-L because Eric's posting was to both lists. /Leonard