A Plea to Mailing / News Forwarding List Maintainers

[Steve D. Miller]

   If you're trying to hack headers to make sure that mail/news bounces go
back where they belong, I'd suggest using the RFC 822 Sender:  line rather
than Errors-To:.  The former is standard, while the latter is not.  The
former works pretty well, too; on a large (> 500 users) mailing list I run,
on which I put a Sender:  line in the header, submitters usually don't see
any bounces.

   Hacking the From: line may or may not be worth it.  I don't, but that's
just me.

   If you want a copy of the software I use to hack headers on mailing lists,
anonymous FTP out to fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (128.8.120.3, for those living in
the host-table-based past), and grab pub/distribute.tar.  A compressed
version is also available.

	-Steve

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