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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Problem with large aliases in mailx
Summary: bogus!
Message-ID: <672@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 12 Jul 89 15:06:56 GMT
References: <28509@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <114962@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Athabasca University
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In article <114962@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@sun.com (Dan Heller) writes:
>In article <28509@pbhya.PacBell.COM> bgo@PacBell.COM (Bud Odekirk) writes:
>> When I send a message to a mailx alias that has many userids in it (like 200)
>> everyone that recieves the message see all of the userids on the "To:" line.
>> Is there any way that I can suppress all of the userids and just show the alias name ?? 
>
>In mush you can do this by setting "no_expand".  Anything you have on the To:
>line remains untouched.

YOW! This is not a Good Thing to do. Say your local alias is called foo.
When someone on the expansion list tries to reply, the reply will go to
foo@your.domain. Odds are your MTA will have NO IDEA what foo corresponds
to, and will bounce the mail. The UA has absolutely no business doing
something like this. This can be a pain when you have a large mailing list,
but it's better to have a painful working list rather than a painless
broken one.

If you're up to 200 users, why not ask your postmaster to install an
global system alias for your list?

>This is an often asked question by new mush users, so I thought I'd mention it.

Thanks for the broken software warning :-)



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Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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               the nation would probably go bankrupt.