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Subject: Re: elist address or your address in message TO header
From: John R Levine <johnl @ iecc . com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
To: Bernie Cosell <bernie @ fantasyfarm . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <200010251749.e9PHniL13023@mail.rev.net>

> That's why I asked --- at the expense of making email more confusing and 
> making it *harder* to figure out "the list that the message came by", we 
> get... ??what??

I think the suggestion is to put the recipient's address in the To: line, and
to put the list name in Sender: or X-List-Name: or something like that for
people who use filtering rules to sort list mail into separate mailboxes. 

I really like the idea of putting the receipient's name in the To: line. 
Even though I use VERP to put a unique envelope return address on each
message sent out to my lists, and that works quite well for bounce pruning, I
get plenty of both manual and automatic bounces where the envelope and most
of the header lines are all gone or smashed beyond recognition.  It's rare to
lose the To: line, which means that I can figure out what address to take off
the list. 

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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