Re: Lyris

[John Martin <martin @ terena . nl>]

At 4:19 pm +0000 28/11/96, John Buckman wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this is a gratuitous rewriting of the original
>> poster's message.  If I address mail to foo@somewhere.com, I
>> expect messages to arrive at the user saying that.  If you wish
>> to do address detection, put it in a user-defined header.
>
>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.

I think that you will have problems with this. This is certainly different
from the way every other list manager works on the internet (as far as I
know them). How are people supposed to filter their different mailing
lists? E.g. When people join multiple mailing lists but also have
prioritised work to do, it is very common practice to filter the lists into
different mail folders which can be perused at will and depending on
priority. How can a person sort mail sent to a mailing list from mail sent
personally? (Would they need to use different email addresses for each list
to enable this?)

There have been various attempts to standardize header behaviour of mailing
list expanders in the IETF. Whilst the various vendors disagree on
specifics of headers, I'm sure they would all agree that the "To:" field
needs to give some indication of it being a mailing list posting -
otherwise, how is a user to know?

If you must rely on this, how about an alternative: "X-Subscribed-As: " or
something similar? This would solve your problem and the list manager's and
wouldn't break existing practice, nor would it confuse users.

...or at least make it configurable: is this an option?

Can you send a complete set of headers for a ficticious posting to the
list-manaers list? I'm sure others (i.e. potential customers ;->), would be
interested in seeing this too.

Regards,

John