At 07:20 PM 3/21/97 -0600, George Blake wrote: >I'm getting some mail from people who are responding to the mailing list >and a person like this: > > TO: Persons Name > CC: Mailing List > >This gives people mail in the mail box that looks like it is addressed to >"Persons Name" instead of to the list. Peoples filtering programs then do >not move the message to a folder. >I think mail should be addressed like this: > > TO: Mailing List > CC: Persons Name > >What is the proper way to do this. What's the Netiquet? I think either is proper; it depends who the "primary audience" is supposed to be. Some lists rewrite the TO: header, sometimes putting the previous ones in Comments: or X- fields; for those lists you can always filter on "To:". In practice, the variation probably occurs when different mail clients do different shuffling with a "group reply" command. You might want to filter on "To:" *or* "Cc:" -- even that isn't good enough, as a list may occasionally be Bcc'd. Some lists use "Sender:" or "Resent-Sender:" or "Resent-From:" which will be more reliable; you kind of need to look at what the list puts out, especially if the SMTP "MAIL FROM" isn't available to you (either in "From " (no colon) or "Return-Path:"), which is probably the most predictable if you have that available. Cheers, Stan