Re: OT: This list is Razored

There sure is a lot to the mail protocol, more to learn here I see! Thanks Bruno.


2/6/2003 1:37:43 PM, Bruno Wolff III  wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:44:34 -0800,
>  Dennis Gearon  wrote:
>> Fro example, if I use an Access Control List for blocking unwanted email, I will get the email 
>> form thsi group fine. But everyone who cc's me as they reply to the email (or visa versa, I've 
>> nerver been on a group that had the headers set up as the poster is the from and the list is the 
>> cc before coming to this list) everybody's post could be returned to them. But ACL's are pretty 
>> good to use, esepcially in combination with a content filter for blocking spoofed addresses. 
>> Evenually it's going to take lock and key approach with PGP signings.
>
>It is fairly normal on technical lists not to mung the reply-to headers.
>If you use follow-up-to headers you can tell (at least some) mail clients
>that you are subscribed to the list and don't want to be included on the
>cc header.
>If you aren't worried about people trying to reply just to you and sending
>to the list, you can set up your mail client to set the reply-to header
>to the list when sending to or cc'ing the list (at least with some mail
>clients).
>