For what it's worth, I'm OK with it too. It correctly shows that this is a message relayed by a list sent from a person. I can easily choose whether I want to respond to the list or to the person or both, I had to make that choice before anyhow. If bounces are fixed that's great. Marc
> On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:40 AM, jim stephens via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On 3/3/2017 11:38 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: >>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Jules Richardson wrote: >>> Thanks to both of you. I came back to cctalk after not checking it for a >>> few days, and wondered what the %$#^ was going on, with every message >>> showing with cctalk as the "from" field. >> >> I'm another one who dislikes the new system. It would be much better if the >> Reply-To field did *not* contain the sender's email address because when I >> reply to a message, I use the Reply-To field (of course) and have to delete >> the extra line because I want to reply to the list and *not* privately to >> the sender. So either the sender's address should be in the >>> From field or in a new header field, e.g. List-Original-Sender or >> something like that. >> For now I have set up a procmail rule to strip the "via cctalk" from the >>> From field because this is ugly and redundant. >> >> Christian > Thunderbird is putting in the list with the person in the Reply-To being an > additional recipient in the To: > > I have not bothered stripping that extra. > > The via ctalk is useful as a target for filtering the traffic. For some > reason there is leakage of detected emails on google. It is perhaps due to > prior mentioned non conforming emails of some sort, don't know, their > filtering sucks. > > But it may be that that will allow me to catch more if not all of the cctalk > traffic in gmail. > > I'm subscribed three times for archival purposes. I read via an email > subscription that ends up in a Thunderbird file via pop3 from that server. > Never misses with the email rule. > > I wanted an outside the building forget it archive I could peruse, so created > a subscription into my gmail account. That one is leaking about 1 to 5 > messages a week using the same rule as Thunderbird, which is based on email > to / from etc. > > And a third subscription goes to an account on a server which pulls > everything via fetchmail. That subscription has nothing but Cctalk on it. i > have it as my main archive if all else fails. (and Thunderbird is getting > flaky, and has failed). > > If the via cctalk stays, I'll try looking for that. I had asked jay eons ago > about a [cctalk] prepend on the subject and his and others opinions was that > that was not desirable. However it always works on all lists I have for > filtering. Maybe putting it in the from will be unobtrusive enough people > will put up with it, and maybe Google's filtering won't suck with a rule > hitting that field. > > thanks > jim
