Hi Steve! Thanks for the reply. You replied to me privately but then
also posted on the list, so I'm cc'ing the list.

Steve Yates wrote:
> 
> I decided not to cc my post to you this time so here it is.  :)

Given the behavior of your mailer, and in the absense of address
munging, I appreciate that ...it appears I will not be posting to
PHP-WIN anymore... :-|

> "Mark Filipak" wrote ...
> > From both replies I assume that this list does not protect, hide, or
> > munge email addresses
> 
>     I personally haven't been on a list that does.  Usually the "to"
> and/or "reply-to" is the list but the "from" is the author's e-mail
> software.

All other lists to which I subscribe -- all are non-UNIX related -- do
address munging, even if the reply line coming from the responder
includes a full email address. For example, to the best of my knowledge:

"On Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:"

would be converted to something like this:

"On Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:"

by the list management software (though I don't think Majordomo is that
smart).

> > And from Steve's reply, do I correctly infer that my posts and his
> > are also going to a news server?
> 
>     Yes in fact that's how I'm posting.  Via news.php.net.

Ouch! That's exactly what I try to avoid. Oh well. I have recently
changed email addresses and have been enjoying the lack of spam, but I
guess that will soon change. It's only a transitional email account
until I get my own server up. Then I will be seriously investigating how
to avoid spam. I know people who have managed to hide their email
accounts so well that they never get spam. I'll have to ask them how
they accomplished that magic. One thing I know that they avoid is
posting anything to a usenet group from the 'hidden' account, though
they do post to email-based lists that do address munging.

Ya'know. In the short time that I've been subscribed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and most recently, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been amazed by the amount of spam that manages to get to those
lists and by the lack of concern for user's email addresses. I would
have thought that the *NIX gurus would have worked things out better
than anyone else, but what I'm finding is: that is not true at all!

Thanks for the bandwidth. Unfortunately, as I wrote above, I don't think
I'll be doing any posting to the list in the future.

Ciao -- Mark

-- 
PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Reply via email to