On Sep 24, 2012, at 7:23 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Joel Esler wrote: > >> Maybe you are talking about something I'm not aware of. > > This is standard mailing list etiquette going back, I guess, almost a > couple of decades and I'm both surprised and disappointed to have to > go over it here. > >> But by the pure fact that you are emailing a mailing list shows your >> email address. It's not a secret. Aside from the fact that most >> mail clients put it right back in the reply (as shown above, like >> mine does). > > This is not about what happens when people subscribe to mailing lists, > nor about what your mail client may or may not do to be helpful.
I understand your concern. I've been on mailing lists since the mid 90s, and am well aware of list etiquette. Of course, bottom posting is etiquette too, and not a lot of people do it, as their client doesn't do it by default. I'm not going to force people to change the default behavior of how their client behaves just to participate in an open mailing list. Listen, I get it, I've been in the industry a long time as well, but it's just not something I'm going to FORCE people to do. -- Joel Esler Senior Research Engineer, VRT OpenSource Community Manager Sourcefire _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
