I hate the new mail system

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue Mar 7 20:38:43 CST 2017


On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote:
> What makes it so that other mailing lists don't unsubscribe people when
> bounces occur?

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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 20:23:42 -0600
From: Eric Christopherson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Reply-To: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson at gmail.com>,
     "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Subject: Re: I hate the new mail system


Some yahoos would do it as:
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 20:23:42 -0600
From: "Eric Christopherson echristopherson at gmail.com [cctalk]"
        <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: I hate the new mail system


Notice, that they also munge the From:, but they include the author's 
email address buried within the munged From:.

It is not the "correct" From: and Reply-to:,
but, apparently some "modern" systems will not tolerate it done 
"correctly".
Given that it is NOT going to be done "correctly", which among us are 
capable of successfully working around it?

This discussion is a little like a pedantic grammar argument.


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com


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