Re: CSV (Crocker's draft) good! (evaluation, big suggestion)

Tony Finch writes:
> "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote:
> >  Mailing lists are very rarely members of a forwarding relationship. 
> >  If they are it is because the list has moved and there is a very 
> >  clear and explicit understanding of the forwarding relationship.
> This is incorrect. In the University of Cambridge we have hundreds of 
> virtual mail domains (i.e. alias files) which provide departments 
> etc. with their own email presence.
I expect that the University of Cambridge staff have have a clear and 
explicit understanding of the aliases involved. Right?
> I expect setups like this will be common in other academic sites, and 
> probably large organizations in general. Surely there are ISPs out 
> there providing similar email services to ours?
I know one. They generate all the alias files with cron job from a 
database. That database has _all_ the information relevant to 
forwarding relationships.
Arnt