On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:03:02PM -0800, Cedant Web Hosting wrote:

     Is it possible to make the footer of the email list the person 

that the email was sent to. For example at the bottom of the email body, it would be able to say "You are subscribed as $user@$somedomain.com where it would put the users actual email address that received that letter.

Thanks, Thomas

For that to be possible, the list server would have to send a separate message to each subscriber individually. Smartlist doesn't do that. If you have a number of subscribers at one address, say yahoo.com or, as in my case usc.edu, it aggregates them and sends one message to that particular mail host with a whole bunch of names attached. Much more efficient for all concerned, but it makes it impossible to put individual messages to different subscribers. There are some list servers that do what you want. The one I happen to know does this is a commercial server made by Lyris. I suspect there are many more nowadays, since most of the spam I get seems to put all sorts of individualized content such as putting random garbage at the end of the Subject line, but I don't know much about them.

Don MacDougall