From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Administrivia.
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:59:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17407.1015952375@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203121651.g2CGpTK28931@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca said:
> Um, let me be more clear. If I want to bounce emails which, say, have
> a high proportion of high-bit characters (guess why:-), I want them to
> go to the From: address (i.e. the original sender), not the list
> administrator. I think that's a good thing, since I want to apply the
> clue-by-four to the sender, and not the list admin.
> And formail looks at the From: address nicely, just the way I like it
> :-)
In that case, it makes some sense, yes. Unless you also obey Reply-To and
encounter a list which stupidly sets the Reply-To header to go back to the
list - another common combination of idiocies.
As long as you don't respond to messages with _NULL_ reverse-path (i.e.
error messages), that is.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 9:17 Administrivia David Woodhouse
2002-03-12 16:05 ` Administrivia Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 16:14 ` Administrivia David Woodhouse
2002-03-12 16:40 ` Administrivia Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 16:45 ` Administrivia David Woodhouse
2002-03-12 16:51 ` Administrivia Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 16:59 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-03-12 17:05 ` Administrivia Richard Gooch
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