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Subject: Re: Superhighway Growth
From: mmorse @ nsf . gov (Michael H. Morse)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 10:05:13 EDT
To: pmdatropos @ aol . com, list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: pmdatropos@aol.com "Re: Superhighway Growth" (Apr 25, 9:23am)

> Responses
> to list articles will be transmitted over mail, and (assuming all goes well)
> will arrive at the list processor appearing as though they came from our
> subscribers, not the America Online distribution mechanism. 

The question is who does the response appear to be from?  If it appears
to be from the AOL user's internet address (e.g. "mmorse@aol.com") then
some list manager programs will reject the response, for the reason
that "the user is not on the list."  (I'm not saying that this is a
good way to behave, but it is a fact of life.)  If the responses all
come from "list@aol.com" (or whatever the address you use to subscribe
your internal news reader to the list), then that will be misleading at
best, and may cause other problems.  Some advice: pay attention to
your mail headers and envelope addresses.  Such a scheme as you
propose has the potential for awesome mail loops.

--Mike


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