On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:55:06 -0500, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: > That being said, you could sign up on it and then set your membership to > receive no mail...?
This is especially dangerous because the Open MPI lists munge the Reply-To header, which is a bad thing http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html But lots of mailers have poor default handling of mailing lists, so it's complicated. With munging, a mailer's "reply-to-sender" function will send mail *only* to the list and "reply-to-all" will send it to the list and any other recipients, but *not* the sender (unless the mailer does special detection of munged reply-to headers). This makes it rather difficult to participate in a discussion without receiving mail from the list, or even to reliably filter list traffic (you have to write filter rules that walk the References tree to find if it is something that would be interesting to you, and then you get false positives from people who reply to an existing thread when they wanted to make a new thread). Jed
