Re: Mailing list changes

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:48:03 +0100
Message-ID: <994b4e77-46fc-4b0d-8a2b-bb28590d49e2@null.net>
and if you're crazy to suggest that people should be allowed to post to 
a mailing list and have a different reply to address than the one they 
subscribed to the mailing list, that is absurd.

You sign up to a mailing list with an email address and usually only 
that email address is allowed to post to the mailing list.

Mailing lists should reject any emails that have a reply to set, because 
replies will usually come through the mailing list & if you're not 
monitoring that email account then you're broken.

On 28/03/2018 09:42, smf wrote:
> On 26/03/2018 18:19, Greg King wrote:
>
>> No! It *isn't* being set by the user. That's the whole point of this 
>> argument.  It is being set by the mailing list manager program. It's 
>> being set to the mailing list's address, not the author's -- 
>> optional, alternate -- address.  That's wrong.  That's why 
>> Thunderbird was changed to ignore that abuse.
>>
> Once you send an email to a mailing list, the user becomes the mailing 
> list itself.
>
> Allowing users to hijack mailing lists by having replies to emails 
> sent directly back to them rather than to the list is abuse and 
> thunderbird should stop enabling this fragrant abusive practise.
>
> The Thunderbird developers have a disconnect with reality.
>
>
>
Received on 2018-03-28 11:01:17

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