Geoff Mulligan via mailop wrote: > 1. If a recipient on an email message is both in the To: or Cc: and on the > mailing list, should the listserver send the message to the recipient: > a) By default > b) Not by default (but configurable) > c) Never
If a message was sent to me directly and also to a mailing list to which I am subscribed then if I don't get both copies of the message I look to see what failed that I didn't get the message from the mailing list to which I was validly subscribed. The direct copy will show the headers of the message and the body as sent by the sender directly to me the recipient. The mailing list copy will have been process, will have List-*: headers added, will possibly have footers and subject tags added, will possibly be converted to a digest (dog help us), and these days will have broken DKIM by doing so. Mailman has an option "Filter out duplicate messages to listmembers (if possible)" that avoids mailing to the subscriber if it sees the subscriber address in a To or Cc field. I really hate that feature. However configurable is best as there are others that like that feature. > 2. If a mailing list is in the BCC: should a message be delivered to the > list: > a) Yes - always > b) No - never > c) Configurable > d) Convert it to a CC: Configurable. Because one size does not fit everyone. But sometimes there is only one size available. I would always say never. Because what is a recipient going to do? 1) What is this message? Why am I getting it? I don't recognize the author of this message. Is it spam? It must be spam! Report as spam. Get the mailing list host on a DNSBL. 2) Most MUAs will look at the To and Cc headers when generating a direct reply or a group follow-up. Not having the mailing list in the visible recipient means that most MUAs will follow-up only to the visible addresses and no response will ever make it back to the mailing list. 3) No mention was made of any List-Post header but that is critical to this discussion. With a List-Post header an MUA _might_ do the right thing with a group follow-up response. Regardless too few MUAs understand List-Post and too few will do the Right Thing generating a reply back to the mailing list. > Thanks - I'm trying to improve my simple mailing list system > (www.listdist.com) It's disheartening to me to see a developer of mailing list software not realize that they are thread-jacking (aka thread stealing) a previous discussion. :-( Bob _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
