On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
|1) it is unnecessary to quote back a post which went to the entire list,
|since we are all on the same list, we have all already seen it
My apologies. Since I had received several of these and not seen others
mention such email(s), I thought it possible that most of you have had a
sucussful filter and were able to trash this. In which case I wanted to
know the recipe used to do so.
|2) replying to spam to the list is a bad idea, since most of us who don't
|want to see it have put filters in place and probably didn't see the original
|spam but will see your followups
This was a mistake, I had not intended to reply to the spam, as it will
usually bring more knocking on your door.
|> The yahoo.com domain is obvious a valid one, but (even though I
|> haven't checked yet) I am assuming that whynot.net is not valid
|> Or in everyones opinion should procmail be set to make sure the
|> from and reply to match?
|
|That would be relatively nonsensical, given what the Reply-To is designed to
|do.... It is perfectly valid to have different Reply-To lines than From
|lines.... for example, when I send email to this list I set replies to go
|back to the list because I don't want/need personal copies
That is understood, and I would not want to include any list in that
variable, but would this be wise for typical person to person mail? I
could be wrong on this example also, but excluding list(s), is
there a valid reason for the Reply-To: and From: not to match on person to
person mail?
Again, I apologize, and hope I did not offend or upset anyone with my
actions.
- "Henry Smith, Jr."