I get 300 -500 emails a day between mailing list that I am subscribed to along
with support request for the software I support.
There was nothing sent to my by the list owner when I subscribe to this list that
I was required to leave my Reply-To field blank. I have been involved with the
internet and mailing list since the days of the old Military DDN and NEVER have I
head of this requirement -"netiquette".
I will unsubscribe with this address and re-subscribe with my yahoo account as I
believe I can null out the reply address.
Jeff Steinkamp - N7YG
Tucson, AZ
SCUD Missile Coordinates
N32-13-55.01 W110-50-51.91
http://n7yg.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~jksteinkamp
Linux User #420428
Skype : jeff.steinkamp
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joost van der Sluis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Steinkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 14:45
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Recent SVN lazarus won't compile. Can't find unitcontnrs.
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 13:29 -0700, Jeff Steinkamp wrote:
Vincent
If I hit reply to on this message, it is addressed to you. If I hit Rely-to on
a
message from the Lazarus mailing list it may go to this list or not.
This is a mailing list parameter that has been set by the owner of the list.
It
allow one to reply to the sender of the message first. Why this is setup by
the
list owner is beyond me. I have seen a number of other list set this way also
and
it is very confusing to reply to list messages.
I, along with the rest of the world, are not going to change how we have our
email
clients setup to satisfy this. Many email providers, mine included, require the
reply to address to match the from address as a form of spam protection,
otherwise
the emails are rejected at the SMTP server.
You decision to not answer someone based upon how they have their email clients
setup is rather childish.
Could be. But it's obvious that you don't reply more then 40 times a day
to a mail-list. People who do that, request you to change your settings.
Believe me, if you want any help on the Lazarus-ml, and also from the
more experienced people, you have to change your header, or they won't
response. This is the open-source world, we spend our valueable time
helping you, but if you refuse to make that easier for us, we spend our
time on others who do.
I've never heard of any provider who asks you to set the reply-to adres
as a spam-protection. So I would suggest you to switch provider, or use
a gmail/hotmail or any other web-based mailaccount.
Joost.
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