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From: Christian.Huitema@mirsa.inria.fr (Christian Huitema)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: x.400 for Internet?
Message-ID: <9003061724.AA04632@jerry.inria.fr>
Date: 6 Mar 90 19:26:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Your message of 06 Mar 90 15:58:18 +0000.
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>As I understand it, X.400 Netnews is an oxymoron, indeed X.400 mailing
>lists may also be an oxymoron.  Something about all responses,
>including replies and nondelivery notifications, going to the same
>address.  This is based on indirect information, is it correct?

No. It is implementation dependant for the X.400(84) systems, as the
standard did not address the subject. Some implementation do it
simply, other do it better. Interesting studies were
conducted in the European project AMIGO on the subject.

The handling of distribution lists, including nested lists and
interconnected lists, is extensively described in the 1988 standard.

>	Mark

Christian Huitema