Message-ID: <001901c24839$1157aed0$17fea8c0@dualdell>
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4FD681E AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: members-only option?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:02:24 +0100
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

> I don't quite understand the purpose of the "members" list, however.

It's a fairly common situation that some people find themselves in; they
subscribe to a mailing list as bob AT someisp DOT invalid DOT com but want to post from
fred AT otherisp DOT invalid DOT org for whatever reason (perhaps they have multiple
mailboxes and use one for each list, but all mail comes from a main
address).

Most of the time, this means that they have to sign-up to a subscribers-only
list with the address on their outgoing mail; if they want to receive the
mail somewhere else, they now get two copies of each message.  Yahoo!Groups
has a facility for adding 'alias' addresses, which are addresses associated
with you that you can post from, but get no mail to.  DJ's solution means
that you can sign up to the 'members' list, which means you can post to any
of the other lists.  Then you can sign up to, say, this one, and get mail
from here sent to a different address.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)