Re: elist address or your address in message TO header

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:19:20AM -0400, James M Galvin wrote:
> Memail.com has just begun switching their elists from having the address
> of the elist in the message TO header to having the subscribed address
> in the message TO header.  Personally, I'm disappointed because I think
> only personal email should have my address in the message TO header

And you're correct, of course.  Mail sent "to" a mailing list address
such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not sent to any individual,
but to the address of the mailing list -- and it is therefore that address
which should appear in the "To:" field.   Not only that, but (and I'll check
on this) I believe that this violates RFC 822.

See also http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html ("Reply-To" Munging
Considered Harmful) which does not address this specific topic, but one
closely related to it.

---Rsk