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Subject: Re: Lyris
From: Paul Graham <pjg @ urth . acsu . buffalo . edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:51:42 -0500
To: "John Buckman" <jbuckman @ shelby . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <199611281627.QAA13611@synergy.transbay.net>

since there are sensible ways to deal with this problem your cavalier
attitude toward people who deal with a large volume of mail suggests that
your company is interested in serving a specific market.  listserv has
a (deprecated) option that will rewrite the To: line.  it's (sensibly)
user or list owner controlled and not the default.

i'm sure there are other MLM's out there that do foolish things.  i'm also
sure they're in the minority both in number and subscribers.

-------- In reply to:
The main reason we rewrite the To: is that people often have
multiple email addresses, with forwarding instructions so that email
goes to different places it was originally sent.  In such a case, the
recipient of list-generated email message doesn't know what email
address is registered at the list server.
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