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From: aks%anywhere@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Alan Stebbens)
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Subject: Re: Bug in group-list addressing?
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Date: 13 Mar 91 21:34:45 GMT
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> Hmm,, sounds like you are not running MH-6.7.  MH 6.7 just removes any
> instance of group listing in an alias.

I *do* have MH-6.7.1.  It appears, though, that the group list stuff is
done before the "alias" is performed, or perhaps, after the first pass
of alias substitutions.  If you want to have an alias defined as a group
list, this doesn't seem to work:

myalias: A List of People: user1, user2, user3;

I use aliases to make it easy for me to address a bunch of people.  Yet
if I want to use group aliases, and I must always type the group "name"
as well as the alias for the members of the group, then this usage is
less than convenient.

 "Computers should do the work for people, not people do the work for
  computers."

> The @myhost that you see tacked on to the mail comes from sendmail.  I
> believe that this is not RFC complient.

Yes.  I've figured this out; I will have to change my sendmail.cf to
recognize group list addressing and not tack on the hostname in this
case.

Alan