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Re: List Addresses

To: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
Subject: Re: List Addresses
From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:57:02 -0500
Oh!


Simon Favre wrote:
> 
> Welcome to cyberspace. Triumph.cs.utah.edu is the machine that currently
> hosts various mailing lists, like these. The team.net domain is an
> alias. This allows the list adminstrator the freedom to move the entire
> domain to a different host should the need arise, without changing the
> address people send mail to. Some time ago, the administrator urged
> everyone to stop sending to triumph.cs.utah.edu and use the team.net
> suffix to ensure long-term viability of the address. The fact that the
> triumph.cs.utah.edu suffix still appears in the mail you receive is
> probably some obscure feature of the address rewriting rules which are
> one of the most confusing aspects of Internet mail. Since the lists are
> really email "exploders", the actual To: line is usually irrelevant.
> 
> Derek Harling wrote:
> >
> > > From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
> > > To: vintage-race@autox.team.net, shop-talk@autox.team.net
> > >
> > > Can someone pls enlighten me as to what is going on?
> > >
> > > I thought I subsribed to vintage-race@autox.team.net  and
> > > to  shop-talk@autox.team.net
> > >
> > > I keep getting mail addressed to vintage-race@triumph.cs.utah.edu  and
> > > to  shop-talk@triumph.cs.utah.edu
> > >
> > > Are they the same or what?
> > >
> > > Just curious.
> > >
> > > Derek

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