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Oxford Eric Thomas <ET@UKACRL> |
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Fri, 24 Jul 1987 10:11 BST |
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Rejection notices should contain the text of the rejected mail. If I get a
piece of mail saying "Your mail could not be delivered because (...)" and
nothing else, I'm not really informed about what has happened. I want to know
WHICH piece of mail was not delivered.
If you include a copy of the original mail in the rejection notice LISTSERV
will recognize it as such, and that's all.
Now a question: let's assume that I change the Sender: field to point to the
moderator. You'll get an ERIC MAIL in your reader whenever someone mails to
LSTSRV-L. If I had set it to Reply-To= Sender, you would not even know that
this came from LSTSRV-L. MAILBOOK would think it came from me, and would log
it in the notebook associated with [log in to unmask] You will have no way to know
what comes from *me* and what comes from a list of which I am the moderator,
unless you looked at it closely. This means you couldn't read "important" mail
in the morning when you arrive at work, and keep distribution lists mail for
later on. I doubt more than 10% of people would want that. And those who want
are those who work with a poor mail user agent which doesn't allow them to
make any useful use of the contents of the Sender: field.
Now if the next day I move you to another server, you're going to get some
MEYER MAIL or EARNMAIN MAIL instead of ERIC MAIL. Still for the very same
distribution list.
Eric
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