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