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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk @ chinet . chinet . com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:38:24 -0500 (CDT)
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In-reply-to: <ylemt04wmi.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

>From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
>Date: 24 Sep 1998 21:57:57 -0700

>Adam H Kerman <ahk@chinet.chinet.com> writes:

>>By the way, [listname]-owner is the wrong alias. Use owner-[listname].
>>The explanation is in the FAQs.

>Not necessarily true in general. owner-[listname] is a sendmailism;

It's mentioned in an informational RFC and in the Majordomo FAQ. I'd say that
that indicates best practices, no?

   Linkname: RFC 1211 - "Problems with the Maintenance of Large Mailing Lists"
        URL: http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1211.txt

>all of my lists use [listname]-owner since it makes it much easier to delegate
>the list addresses.

What on Earth could you be doing that interferes with using owner-[listname]?



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