Multiple list addrs (was Debian flamewar)

[Benjamin Scott]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 11:57am, jbd at codemeta.com wrote:
> There are insurmountable technical reasons (as far as I'm concerned) for
> keeping gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org, so if anything, we should remove
> discuss at gnhlug.org.

  Reluctantly agreed.  Many moons ago, when <gnhlug at zk3.dec.com> was being
phased out, we ("we" being those of us around a table at Martha's drinking
beer) had these grand plans of creating a mecca of online GNHLUG resources
on some hypothetical dedicated server.  There was talk of <mail.gnhlug.org>
being a temporary thing, and that <discuss at gnhlug.org> would be where we
eventually got to.  I think that was where the alias came from.  Obviously,
the rest never happened...  :-(

> I suspect the reason discuss at gnhlug.org is appearing in mail messages, is
> because someone's MUA is placing it on the address line; I don't believe
> its in any mailman definitions anywhere.

  I had "gnhlug" aliased to "discuss at gnhlug.org" in my address book, so at
least one of the guilty parties was me.  I probably typed that in about the
same time <zk3.dec.com> died.  /me bows head in remembrance.  I've updated
my address book to point to the longer form.

  FWIW, I've got an elaborate set of procmail recipes, Pine rules, scripts,
and other kludgery that makes sure that when I post to GNHLUG, all my
headers are set properly (for a specific definition of "properly").  So the
*duplicate* headers weren't coming from me.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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