[Nottingham] [Maillist] 'Munging' the "From" mail headers on this list?

[Martin]

On 18/05/16 10:40, Jason Irwin via Nottingham wrote:
> On 17/05/16 22:20, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
>> However, that also means that people are denied the ease of replying to
>> someone offlist. Unless that is you have deliberately set your own
>> "Reply-To" for your own email sending.
> How does one do that? Is it a list setting or do I have to argue with my
> client?

That is set on whatever mail client (or webmail system) you use.

Recipients then see a "From" address which in this case is the
"nottingham" lug maillist, and then also a "Reply-To" address that is
whatever you have set on your sending system. Default for most clients
is to firstly reply to the "Reply-To" address (and only to use the
"From" address when "Reply-To" is not listed).


> I really should have joined using plus-addressing (or be using my own
> email....)

Hey! That's an ideal "Howto" web posting ;-)


>> Do we keep to the defaults (with your email address visible in any mail
>> postings)? Or do we run and hide from the spammers?
> I'm not too bothered, I guess others may prefer to be hidden.
> My main use of "off-list" is for the walks, so people don't get flooded.

*My** first four thoughts are:

Good to make the email address harvesting for spammers a little more
difficult;

Bad in that the anonymity removes peer pressure to avoid trolling;

Good in that we can have (partial) anonymity for whatever possibility
but bad in that we get closed down if Edward Snowden joins our list;

We all lose the option to filter maillist postings by "From" address.



And then there is the lazy way of not bothering and drifting along with
whatever defaults are set for us. (Freedom needs exercising to keep
practised!)


Cheers,
Martin



Just in case if anyone off this planet could possibly have missed the
reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

And subsequently the demise of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit



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