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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: user's aliases on the To: line (was: UUnet and munging headers.)
Message-ID: <2705@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 13:42:00 GMT
References: <2777.AA2777@julie> <IaOviRb0BwwOQbc2ly@transarc.com> <136802@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <7329@gollum.twg.com> <10128@ogicse.ogc.edu>
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In <10128@ogicse.ogc.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
|Joe User (joe@joes.domain.org) has in his .mailrc (or .mushrc) file:
|    alias everybody	fred mary tom peter@far.away.edu \
|			henry@farther.off.com uunet!nowhere!jane
|If he sets $no_expand in mush and gives the command
|    mail everybody
|mush will send out a message with the headers (among others)
|    From: joe@joes.domain.org
|    To: everybody

It is totally wrong to send out mail with an invalid address.

If you must provide a "no_expand" sort of facility, leave OFF the to
address and treat everyone as Bcc recipients.

	/rich $alz
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