On 14 March 2012 09:52, Alex Stapleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14/03/12 08:26, Mark Goodge wrote:
>>
>> My guess is that what's happening is that they've taken the one-time
>> address generated by WDTK for the first request, and then stored that in
>> their system as your address, and any subsequent requests from you are being
>> replied to that address. Or, more simply, whoever is replying is just
>> looking for "Paul Perrin" in their Outlook address book and taking the first
>> match.
>
> (I am making an awful lot of assumptions about how things work currently
> here but...)
>
> What about instead of sending the message from
>
> "Paul Perrin <[email protected]>"
>
> You do
>
> "Paul Perrin [Title of FOIA Request] <[email protected]>"
>
> Obviously the responder can still screw up and choose the wrong return
> address, this way does seem like it would make it easier to do the right
> thing using the erroneous work-flow you described them using.

It's a nice idea, but I wonder what massively long names in a From:
field do to spam scores...

Seb

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