Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!hpcea!marvit From: marvit@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Mail header wishlist (was Re: Another example why not to re-route) Message-ID: <1760002@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 02:02:49 GMT References: <1320@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA Lines: 16 To prevent massive repostings to a distribution list, I use the addres form (described in RFC-822): To: NiceName-of-List: real-address@host, address-alias; I also include a From: List-request@myhost as well as the usual X-Errors-to and anything else I can think of. The above addressing convention works well for small mailing lists as well (inside an organization). -Peter marvit HP Labs