Subject: Re: Mail list envelope sender address
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/12/1996 20:21:42
On 12 Nov 1996 14:38:10 -0500, mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) mumbled:
> Magnus Holmberg <mho@era-a.ericsson.se> writes:
>
> >
> > Once upon a time, there were headers like
> > X-Loop: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> > Any chance of getting them back?
>
> That was a hack I added to majordomo.  We're now using qmail, which
> inserts `Delivered-To: <list>@NetBSD.ORG' headers, and people (other
> than me) decided to Eliminate the `X-Loop' headers.

IMHO, that's the better way to do it, too.  The inflation of X-whatever:  
headers these days is actually pretty disgusting.  Delivered-To: looks very  
much like RFC, if it isn't in fact part of the spec; a la "walks like  
a...".

Regards,
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