With one exception, the positional parameters in a mailing list specification provide alternate addresses to which certain sorts of list related activity should be directed (e.g., an address to which errors should be sent to rather than back to the list itself). The positional parameters are so named for a reason: their position in the comma separated list distinguishes which parameter is being specified. When more than one parameter (positional or otherwise) is specified, they must be separated by commas. If you want to specify a positional parameter but omit some which come first, then specify asterisks, *, for the positional parameters which you want to omit. For example, db> add foo-list "<d1:[sue]sample.dis, *, *, sue@example.com" Finally, to make the use of a positional parameter conditional, end the parameter value with an asterisk. In this case the value associated with the parameter will only be used if the corresponding message header line is not present in the message being posted to the list. (The asterisk will not appear in the message header should the parameter take effect.) Without further ado, the positional parameters are: error-return-address ERROR-RETURN-ADDRESS specifies an address to replace the message's regular envelope From: address as well as an address to be inserted into the header as an Errors-to: address. This header line is not generated if this address is not specified. reply-to-address The REPLY-TO-ADDRESS parameter specifies an address to be used as a Reply-to: address. errors-to-address The ERRORS-TO-ADDRESS parameter specifies an address to be placed on the Errors-to: header, if this address should be different from the ERROR-RETURN-ADDRESS that is used as the envelope From: address. warnings-to-address The WARNINGS-TO-ADDRESS parameter specifies an address to be placed on the Warnings-to: header line. This header line is not generated if this address is not specified. comments The COMMENTS parameter specifies a string to be placed in a Comments: header line. This header line will add to any Comments: header lines already present in the message being posted to the list.