Re: strange list behavior when replying to message on list

On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Mark Weaver wrote:

Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Mark Weaver wrote:

Andrew Ballard wrote:

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mark Weaver <mdw1982@mdw1982.com> wrote:

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone else happens to be using Mozilla Thunderbird and seeing this behavior, and also if this behavior is a feature or a bug. When I hit the reply button to respond to a message most of the time the actual sender's address is the one the message is being sent to rather than the list itself. This is the first mailing list I've been on that I've seen this behavior; all other lists I'm on when one hits the reply button, or CTRL+R the mailing list's address is inserted as it should be and is expected. I know with some email clients there is a menu item specifically there for responding "to the list" based on whether or not there is a list-header in the header information but that isn't an available option with Thunderbird. Is anyone else seeing this behavior or is there something I'm missing? Mark

It's not specific to Thunderbird or any other mail client. I'm pretty sure it was configured that way on purpose. Have a look at this thread: http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=105700032521606&w=2 Andrew

well, obviously since the issue still exists it's clear that this never got resolved. I just don't understand the obstenant behavior of some folks in the presence of clear and plain logic. Especially from a programmer. Makes no sense at all. Guess I'm off to create the necessary recipe for Procmail to do the adult thing and make sense of the non-sense.

I use Thunderbird 2.x on Kubuntu and I just hit reply to this mail. I have news.php.net setup as a news account. I do receive and have received frequent timeouts contacting the news server though. Has been a pain for quite awhile. -Shawn

That's what I also do. :D I have thunderbird 2.x on Fedora 8. So, it works. :)

by the way... I thought everyone would be rather interested to know that because of the way the list is setup and running at the moment and "not" hiding the senders email address, it's extremely easy to harvest addresses from messages. That means that if someone got infected or a spammer, scammer, etc... ever subscribed to the list it wouldn't be any trouble at all to get list members' addresses. It took all of 10 seconds to grep the imap folder where all the messages I get are stored for the From: header and out popped everyone's address. Just another reason to hide the sender's address and use the reply-to header.

I'm on about 10 different mailing lists NONE of which completely hide your address, and I have NO spam that comes in. I handle all my spam at the MTA rather then the MUA. So all I'm saying is for some spam is a way of life... it's a necessary evil.... But there are ways to avoid it.

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