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Subject: Re: Lyris
From: scs @ lokkur . dexter . mi . us (Steve Simmons)
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: 29 Nov 1996 10:57:21 -0500
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
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References: <199611281051.KAA12763@synergy.transbay.net>

"John Buckman" <jbuckman@shelby.com> writes:

>The To: address of every message is always the recipient's email
>address, not the list name.  This makes it simple for the recipient
>to determine what email address they are subscribed with.  

ACK!  This is really a *bad* idea.  Incredibly bad.  It will break
every auto-processing mail system out there.  Without exception.
It's an incredibly, incredibly bad idea.
-- 
  ``I tell you, we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody
tell you any different.''
	Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in Harpers (11-95)


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