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From: Leslie Mikesell <les @ Mcs . Net>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:39:59 -0600 (CST)
To: rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com (Rich Pieri)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <x7yb3fp6h6.fsf@gkar.prescienttech.com> from "Rich Pieri" at Oct 27, 97 10:32:05 am

> If you wish to treat Majordomo as the originator, then you need to generate
> a new set of headers.  The new From header needs to point at majordomo, or
> the list-owner mailbox, since these are the responsible agents.  If you go
> with the latter then you must eliminate the Sender header.  But now it
> becomes impossible to send a reply to the person who initially posted the
> message since his mailbox is no longer in the headers.
> 
> I think that the foolishness of this tack is readilly apparant.

The resend program is clearly the originator (as an agent of the
list owner).  If it were not, you would simply alias the list
to the expansion file and let the MTA handle it instead of piping
through resend at all.  So, yes the From: is illegal.  What do you
propose to do about it?

  Les Mikesell
     les@mcs.com


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