On 1/17/06, D. Joe [email protected] wrote:
For example, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to send something to an -announce list while redirecting replies to an address to which non-subscribers (eg, newbies, installfest registrants, etc) can post without moderator intervention (like a newbie-handholding-volunteer with good spam filter, or an installfest coordinator, etc) Or to send email to the main list and redirect replies to an -executive list in which administrative garbage (like this thread) gets redirected. And so on.
I send things to my announce list (very occasionally) by editing the message, including headers, in vim, then passing the message and the recipient list to my outbound MTA, rather than trying to e-mail something to the announce list, so for me these edge and corner cases of munging are irrelevant, at least to the announcement use case.
This thread is not administrative garbage -- it is a lucid discussion of current practice in a realm with multiple valid approaches. Most on-topic if you ask me. Which nobody did. Which didn't stop me. That's me for you.
-- David L Nicol Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself