[Virtualacorn-list] [SPAM] Test

[Vince M Hudd]

On 23/01/18 15:38, John McCartney wrote:

> When I received André's post, I deliberately sent a
> personal e-mail to avoid this unwanted repetition of events
> I would rather forget. It seems that it wasn't personal
> enough! Was it the information in the headers that caused
> the propagation of the last couple of days?

Pretty much - if you mean what I think you do; André's follow-up to your 
post honoured the original headers. So in the same way that your post 
was crossposted to multiple lists, so was his - though whether it 
appeared in any of those lists depends on whether or not he is a 
subscriber and/or the list settings.

Your initial follow-up to his post similarly followed the same headers - 
so that one would have been crossposted as well - but with the added 
bonus that if André isn't subscribed to the same lists as you, your 
reply might have appeared on mailing lists that his didn't, and thus 
confused readers, seeing you apparently replying to a message they 
hadn't seen.

 From my point of view, the same problem occurred with both posts as 
your original - my settings for this list meant that both were held for 
moderation due to the multiple recipients; so you didn't see André's 
post *on this list* (even if you'd seen it sooner elsewhere*) until I'd 
logged in and approved it.

As an added bonus, even though my follow-up only went to this list, I 
have myself on permanent moderation due some spam that made it onto a 
list a year or two back - so I also had to log in and approve my own 
post. (As I'll have to do with this one!)

Bottom line: Don't use To: or CC: to post to multiple mailing lists (or 
even to mailing lists along with third parties).

IIRC BCC works (possibly with nothing in To: or CC:) - using that should 
mean the list server will only see itself as the recipient, and pass the 
message along correctly. (ISTR I used to do something along those lines 
for announcements back in the late 1990s, early 2000s - but the mailing 
list involved was mine, operated in Pluto, so I may have fudged it to 
work!)

* Although I think you're using Pluto, and I suspect it may be 'clever' 
enough to be able to confuse matters.

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Vince M Hudd - Soft Rock Software   - www.softrock.co.uk
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