On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Werner Reisberger wrote:
Greg Matheson <lang-sl@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001, David W. Tamkin wrote:
| I thought it would be difficult to get smartlist to not send | a copy to the sender and only to all the other addresses in dist, | but it wasn't.
Sorry, I wrote this sentence about getting smartlist to leave out the sender when distributing the message, not David. I think I must have deleted his attribution line.
You cannot do this with SL unless you modify the choplist code.
I've done only minimal testing, with 2 or 3 addresses in dist, but it seems smartlist is just distributing to the other addresses and not that of the sender. Is dist hard-coded into choplist? Or is it sufficient to modify this line: alt_sendmail="choplist $minnames $mindiffnames $maxnames $maxsplits $maxsize $maxconcur dist" in rc.init On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Greg explained,
| ... my students I guess think of a piece | of email as being an object that if it comes back to them means | it didn't get to where it was supposed to go.
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Perhaps you could teach them that it is a good thing to get back one's own posts is a good thing and that "MAILER-DAEMON" is not any of their names.
This is what I say. If they get back their mail, I say it means it shows that the mail at least made it to Chinmin College. They are not disturbed by not getting replies to their mail from correspondents. <advertisement>Anyone wanting some Taiwanese penpals should visit the site below</advertisement> In defense of my students, I am perhaps confusing them by not telling them more about the lists to which they are writing. They are under the impression they are writing to individual penpals. The smartlist lists at those addresses are behind the scenes. I think those MAILER-DAEMON messages are not just confusing to non-native speakers of English, and SmartList itself isn't very explicit about identifying itself. It could advertise the the fact it is distributing a list more by rewriting the To: line the way I thought LISTSERV used to stick in the official name for the list, but apparently doesn't. LISTSERV does capitalize the address in the To: line however. -- Greg Matheson Teaching: computer programming Chinmin College done by monkeys. Taiwan Penpals Archive <URL: http://netcity.hinet.net/kurage>