Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Fri Nov 29 11:40:40 PST 2002

Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes:

> My opinion?  You bet.
> 
> Having spent *a lot* of time carefully snipping the individual's name
> and changing the cc: to to: for the dragaera line (so as not to clog
> people's inbox with double-posting), and having *frequently*, when
> traffic is less heavy, mistakenly sent a private msg when I meant to
> send a public one, I (e) HATE the way this list operates.
> 
> Furthermore, and this is beyond simple inconvenience, I have no way of
> knowing, when I have a msg from a stranger in my in-box, if it's from
> this list (or another like it), or of it's an obnoxious and possibly
> dangerous piece of spam.  The other kind of list always tells you if a
> msg is *from* the list in the header.  Yes, by now I know lots of
> people on this list, but there's always the newbie and the infrequent
> poster. I would feel much more secure if all the msg headers said
> Dragaera to start off with.

This is bizarre; I don't understand how that can happen.  When I'm
looking at a message sent to the list, the list name is present in the
To: or cc: header.
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