In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zygo Blaxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Signed message created at Fri Dec 3 00:49:02 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >------------=_944200141-356-0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Type: text/plain > >In debian.devel.legal, you wrote: >>> --=3D20 >>> The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do n= >o=3D >>> t send >>> private mail to the poster using your mailer's "reply" feature. CC's of= > =3D >>> mail=3D20 >>> to mailing lists are OK. Problem reports to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] >"=3D >>> . =3D20 >>> The poster's email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". >> >>Why are you using a fake email address in your headers? > >I wrote the gateway software in question, and that disclaimer. >I'd welcome suggestions about better ways to express the situation, >which I'll describe in some detail below. > >Erich's answer was...interesting...but as usual, not entirely complete
As usual... hmmmm... lovely choice of words. >or accurate. Ahem. I don't recall writing any thread reorganization >software, for one thing. It's amazing how only a dozen lines of code >with the simplest design I can think of is nearly impossible for people >to understand... Tisk tisk. >Corel has approximately 400 mailing lists subscribed to an internal >news/mail gateway that I wrote (the NNTP server is 'sn' by Harold Sn, >somewhere in Singapore IIRC, the SMTP server is 'exim', and the stuff >that goes between the two and makes it into a gateway is mine). The >header rewrite solves a number of problems: <snip> Ahem. Well. Dear? Is it not true that you do NOT touch the Reply-To headers? Why do you don't tell those corel dweebs and co. to use it? Amy -- "We Suzaku Seishi aren't smart enough to give up!!!" Tasuki (Fushigi Yuugi) Amy Fong ([EMAIL PROTECTED])