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Re: REply to address for SERIALST Eric Celeste 24 Oct 1991 15:32 UTC

(Please excuse this fairly technical posting!)

> I am having a hard time responding to the list because of how the
> sender address is set up for serialst... Does any one else have
> this problem?

Me too! I think lots of Unix sites may experience this.

> You put the title for the list in the address portion and our
> system can't handle it... Can you just put the address there?

Actually, the problem is that there is a comma between the list
description (in quotes) and the list address (in angle brackets). If
that comma were removed, then I believe most mailers would be able to
handle replying correctly.

> This is the only list that I have that problem with.
I've had this problem with many of the LISTSERV lists I participate
in. Recently I noticed that some LISTSERVs _do_not_ add this comma, so
there must be a solution out there, though I'm not sure what it is.

...Eric Celeste
   MIT Libraries