[Virtualacorn-list] [SPAM] Test

John McCartney j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jan 24 12:56:36 GMT 2018


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<7fa9caba-e32c-4190-1f59-bb3e9d63ecda at dotcodotukat.co.uk>,
   Vince M Hudd <atdotcodotuk at dotcodotukat.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

<snip>

> 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!)

It's not likely that I'll ever go through the same process
again - once bitten and all that.

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

Indeed, Pluto it was. I've been using it since v1.04 dated
21 Jan 98. I've still got the floppy on which Jonathan used
to distribute it.

Thanks for your feedback, Vince.

John

-- 
John McCartney
j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk




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