Re: About the list's setup, spamming etc.

[Paul Jarc]

Speaking just as another subscriber...

cga <cga9999@softhome.net> wrote:
> Other lists have a Reply-To line set to mailing_list@xyz.org and
> this makes it a lot easier to "not forget" that replies should be
> sent to the list.

There are problems with that approach, and there are less problematic
solutions.
<URL:http://www.unicom.com/FAQ/reply-to-harmful.html>
<URL:http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html>

> Another problem with this setup is that it results in my mailer dumping 
> everything into my junk folder - where they are difficult to find 
> because there is no indication in the "subject" line that this come from 
> this mailing list

The subject is for humans.  Automated filtering can use other fields
such as List-Id.


paul