Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4FD6821@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: members-only option? Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:29:50 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com OK, thanks for that explanation, Ben. Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben A L Jemmett [SMTP:ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk] > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:02 PM > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > Subject: Re: members-only option? > > > 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/)