On 9/24/12 8:41 AM, "Joel Esler" wrote: > 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. > I agree that trying to force people to do so would be a loosing battle and not worth the effort. I subscribe to many lists and must say that this is the first time I've read such a request. But my understanding of what he's asking now is that the list server remove any addresses that their client includes.
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