28 Feb
2017
28 Feb
'17
1:51 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rich
Alderson via cctalk
Sent: 28 February 2017 21:23
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
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Subject: I hate the new mail system
OK, it's official. I rarely criticize mail interfaces, because they're
usually
mostly innocuous. However, today's change makes
life a lot more
difficult.
In the past, it was simple to direct a reply to an individual instead of
to the
list
because the originator's address was right there
in the From: header. As
of
today, the list address is substituted for that, so
that it is impossible
to
respond privately unless you happen to have a bunch of
old messages
archived and the person to whom you want to respond is someone who has
written previously.
"reply all" seems to put the original sender and the list in the "to:"
field..
Is this a conscious choice, or a configurable with a
different default
setting in
a new mail system than was previously in place?
However it came to be, it
greatly diminishes communications quality (IMAO).
I suspect its to do with SPF records where domains publish a list of servers
authorised to send mails "from" a certain domain in the DNS.
Leaving the sender in gets the list server black-listed and the mail will be
bounced by the many servers that check SPF records.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
Dave
mailto:RichA at LivingComputers.org
http://www.LivingComputers.org/