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John Abreau did expound, once apon a Today: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > RFC822 and friends have layed out a wonderfully > > flexible scheme for email headers - let's work within > > those bounds. I (so far) am not terribly concerned > > ..... > > What would you suggest as an alternative? Firstly, I'd suggest asking the user who did it to stop. In the roughly four years that I've been on usenet/mailing lists, this is the first time (well, second -- I think this user or another posted a similar message recently) that I've seen this. I don't think it's a big deal. However, in the unlikely event that this became a real problem, I personally would like to see the list do some sort of filtering of messages that do this. I'm not that familiar with majordomo so I'd be disinclined to make a specific suggestion, BUT I will comment that my own preference would be to DELETE the message, over munging the headers. Better still, so as to promote discussion, rather than stifle it, if majordomo provides a way to do this, would be to insert the list's posting address in the To: header of the original message, so that it is included as a "recipient" in a reply-to-all kind of deal. That is, where in the original message, there were "Undisclosed recipients", the list replaces the "undisclosed recipients" with its own posting address. I am NOT a fan of mucking with the headers, in general, especially of inserting a `Reply-To:' header or mucking with the subject. Considering how long the header munging debate has raged on across the net, I'm really surprised that mailing list software and e-mail clients don't have some sort of mechanism for dealing with this sort of thing... Like a `X-from-maillist:' type of header. I was discussing this just yesterday with a dude from the GNHLUG list. -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt ------------------------------------------------------ Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux geek derekm at mediaone.net | derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net ------------------------------------------------------ - 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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