In message <199611281627.QAA13611@synergy.transbay.net>,
"John Buckman" <jbuckman@shelby.com> writes:
> By making the To: in each email message be who the message is being
> sent to, the recipient is clear what email address the list server
> knows them by. Hopefully, the list admin will get a few less
> personal requests.
He may get less requests about zubscribing/unzubscribing, but he may
get a lot more about why he's using broken software that rewrites
To: headers and asking him to turn it off. :-)
Seriously though, I use one list server that rewrites To: headers on
its lists and it is the most annoying thing you can imagine. Especially
when it's a low volume list to which you send a general announcement and
you get half a dozen queries back about why you mailed them personally
about it because it's not immediately apparent it was sent to a list.
Sigh.
> The Reply-To:, Sender:, and X-Lyris-List: lines in the mail header
> all identify the mailing list, and can be read by most mail filtering
> programs.
Please don't tell me that you're going to force the use of Reply-To:
on the people who use this software ?
You _are_ aware that there are broken MTAs out there on allegedly
mainstream providers such as Compu$serve that break the RFCs and return
bounces to the Reply-To: address and not to the envelope sender ?
(Unless they've finally fixed this after years of pestering by annoyed folks)
--
Christopher Samuel, IT Vulnerabilities Group, chris@rivers.dra.hmg.gb
N-115, Defence Research Agency, St Andrews Road, Great Malvern, England, UK
DISCLAIMER: I write only for myself, not for DRA. Phone: +44 1684 894644
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