On Monday 13 June 2016 16:42:40 Nicolas George wrote: > Mark Fletcher: > > You know we are not talking about running a nuclear reactor here, right? > > What is your point? > > > But this only works if all participants agree to use such headers, > > surely? > > No. The header I am referring to has been supported by all half-decent MUAs > for years, possibly decades, and they work by default. > > > You'll never get the eclectic bunch that populate this list to do that. > > Or does it need to be a feature of the machines hosting the list? > > > > I'm sure she read it the first time, but to the point above, this is > > either something each individual has to co-operate with (not a chance) or > > something one or more maintainers of the list server(s) need to be > > convinced to work on (ditto). > > This something that can be set up either on the mailing-list manager (and I > blame the administrators for the Debian mailing-list for not having done > so) or individually by anyone for their own mails. > > This is the strength of my argument: all people who whine about unwanted > CCs to them could instead take half a minute to set up their headers in > order to avoid them entirely. Their choice.
So tell us how. You have not done so. You have said: ----------------------------- Conforming to that attitude, I have documented my personal preferences in the headers of the mails I send with the following Mutt rules: send-hook . "unmy_hdr Reply-To:" send-hook ~cdebian-u...@lists.debian.org my_hdr "Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ---------------------------------- Those are Mutt rules. So are you saying that no-one should be reading this mailing list with anything other than Mutt?? Let me rephrase this: what is wrong in my email headers that I could edit (how?) to avoid all this spamming? I can see nothing in the headers to my list mails, in spite of looking quite carefully, that suggests that anyone should reply to me personally. Lisi > > > Actually, this one pretty much is - > > No, it is not. > > > it bases its action (or lack) on the > > existence of the standard mail list headers. Very few mail lists do not > > have these headers (Yahoo lists are one exception). > > Unfortunately, as far as I know, and if I am wrong please correct me with a > reference, the standardized mailing-lists headers do not contain the policy > about CCing. > > > Yes, you did, you spammed me too on this response. > > Your mail did not contain a standardized directive not to do so. Neither > does one I am replying to now. > > Mine do (and I have explained the procedure to achieve it), therefore I > never receive unwanted CCs and I am perfectly happy about it. I guess some > people like whining. > > Regards,
