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Re: Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:58:06 GMT
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Geoffrey Hyde <gdothyde@bigpondSTOPSPAMdotnetdotau>
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"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
> > The problem is that I post via the web and don't want to receive ANY
> > posts
> > via email, I prefer the newsreader client to do that.
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> Okay, it appears I misunderstood you to that extent. Sorry about that.
>
> Then again, the issue is still, that mailing lists as a standard use the
> original From: address (which is you) but change the Reply-To field to the
> mailing list itself. I repeat, this is a matter of standard, so even if it
> appears entirely sensible that you would like to see this handled
> differently,
> it would completely modify this standard behavior.
Actually since you're handling the mailing lists, why not consider changing
things so that they better suit the current situation. What I mean is this:
LUGNET becomes Sender, From, and Reply to, but people wishing to respond to
a poster directly via private email have a link at the top, after the
message headers end, and where the message body begins, that has a mailto:
or other email address, which represents that of the original poster.
What this would mean is that LUGNET therefore has complete control over
where bounces go, and this is as it should be, I don't really understand why
you should use an outdated ruleset if it does not fit the circumstances of
today's internet.
What do you think, is it doable like that, or do you see some issue with
that? If someone wants to reply to a post, intending for it to go to the
newsgroup, there should be two things:
1. A reply link, where the poster crafts his reply to the newsgroup in a
fromat where LUGNET can decode what newsgroup it came from in the first
place.
2. A question in the reply link, where the poster confirms that they are a
real human being and not a machine, basically, a way to avoid or at the very
least minimize the possibility that a bot would try to forge-post through
some compromised computer or by way of devious actions from the
forge-posters that infest the net out there today.
Being that the internet is so big, the best way to do 2 above is to use a
graphic image where the human recipient has to correctly input what is shown
the graphic image. It might mean people will need to get used to answering
an extra question, but LUGNET should have it's posters in mind first and
foremost.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
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| (...) In theory, that would be a way of handling things. In practice, this would overthrow the way mailing lists (not only LUGNET but in general) have handled header setting and reply behavior. I would not want to copy a well-known software firm in (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Okay, it appears I misunderstood you to that extent. Sorry about that. Then again, the issue is still, that mailing lists as a standard use the original From: address (which is you) but change the Reply-To field to the mailing list itself. I (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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