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Kindly listen to my part of the story. I had posted to 5 lists each having 100's or 1000's of members. Most of these lists have the 'Reply-to' set in the mailing list software so that even if there is no 'To', the reply goes to the list. That's what I wanted rather than all the members in all the lists posted to, receiving all responses, which will be a real nuisance. (I have done so earlier and received flames) Hope my point is appreciated. Anyways, I apologize for the inconvenience if any, caused. For the mail filtering part, mailing list software allow something (like say [BLU-DISCUSS] ) to be prefixed to the subject, or the 'Reply-to' option as said above can be used. - Thanks Oommen. On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, John Wenger wrote: <JohnWenger>Using undisclosed recipients on a mailing list sucks, <JohnWenger>because it renders standard filters useless. I filter on <JohnWenger>"discuss at blu.org" and "discuss-digest at blu.org" in both the <JohnWenger>"To" and "CC" fields. <JohnWenger> <JohnWenger>If people insist on doing this, then the mailing list needs <JohnWenger>to do something to enable msg filtering, perhaps <JohnWenger>automatically prepending to the subject line a string useful <JohnWenger>for filtering, e.g., "Blu.Org", etc., however this is <JohnWenger>undesirable since it wastes line space. <JohnWenger> <JohnWenger>How else might this problem be solved? <JohnWenger> <JohnWenger>I move that the practice of using undisclosed recipients on <JohnWenger>this list be banned, and implemented in the rules for the <JohnWenger>mailing list processing of msgs, so that humans don't have <JohnWenger>to keep going through this sort of thing. <JohnWenger> <JohnWenger>Would someone please second this motion? <JohnWenger> <JohnWenger>Thanks. - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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