My thanks to all of you who responded to my original post.  I
contacted HP response center about this "bug."  I was told that they
adopted the Microsoft standard for referring to Everyone, I guess
implying that this was an intended result, and they would not be
entertaining any suggestions to enhance the product further.

Yeah, I know HP has abandoned OpenDesk, but this client was a good
idea that was poorly executed.  One would think that if they had set
out to design and build an interface for their own existing, stable,
mature, proprietary product, they would certainly have included
support for its fundamental features, instead of abopting some
standard from some other company with no connection with OpenDesk.
Even so, they could have included the capability for users to create
and save private distribution lists with +Everyone addresses.  Hey,
HP, if you're listening, c'mon it couldn't be that much of a code
change to stop stripping the "*" or "+" somewhere in the mix!!


My original post::

>I have downloaded and installed the generic Windows client for
>OpenDesk (WINGUI.EXE) for the purpose of evaluation.  I am
>experiencing a problem with it when sending messages to addressees
>like *Everyone/location,sublocation.  The client strips the asterisk
>prior to attempting to send it.  The result is that MAILMAN returns
>the message as undeliverable.  This is a nice interface, but this flaw
>renders it unusable in my shop.  Anyone else experienced this problem
>and know what to do about it?  BTW, we are probably behind with our
>operating system updates/patches.  I believe we are at 5.0/PP2.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>_______
>Bob

_______
Bob