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Subject: Re: rewriting "From:"
From: David Barr <barr @ visi . com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:17:53 -0600
To: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
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Steve Moulton wrote:
> 
> I have a customer who has gotten himself in some hot water by
> blindly replying to a mailing list rather than a user.

The correct way to handle is this to not set Reply-To: to the
list.  In order to reply to the list, he'd have to explicitly
use the 'group reply' or 'reply all' function of his mail client.

If you don't have Reply-To: pointing to the list and he did say
reply-all, then that's his fault and drop it.

>  He
> wants me to rewrite the "From:" lines so that rather than
> reading
> 
>    From: user@dom.ain
> 
> they read
> 
>    From: [listname] user@dom.ain

Watch out.  You run the risk of generating a syntactically invalid
address.

> so that the From: address stands out more and he is less likely
> to blindly reply.  He asserts that listserv can do this.
> 
> I've been through the FAQ, and, short of making changes to resend,
> I don't see a way of doing this.
> 
> .  Has anyone dealt with a request like this?

The first response is to not mess with From:.  That's totally evil.

--Dave


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