--- Christian Bricart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:32:47AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > So sprach Eugenio Diaz am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:53:59AM -0700:
> > > Is cooker again leaving the reply-to field untouched in emails?
> >
> > Nope, it's not. In your mail, Reply-To: was set correctly, ie. to the
> list.
>
> And that's _not_ correct..
>
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
This does not makes sense **at all**. List are suposed to be public bulletin
boards, not private chat rooms!
In any event, the writer of that paper (if you can call it that) could not give
a sensible reason for not overrinding (or munging as he call it) the Reply-To
header; but I will give you a single one why you should: SPAMMERS
If a spammer su*scribes to the list with a generic email (a one time use like
hotmail, yahoo, etc) and send a controversial message like "Microsoft pays
Torvalds under the table" with the Reply-To set to his address collecting
address; them BAM! immediately he has hundreds of email addresses (of all the
people that replied) of people interested in Linux. Now, think about that for a
moment ... done? ... well, what would happens if this spammer joins hundreds of
lists nad uses a different alias address in the "Reply-To" for each category of
lists ... guess what? ... he will end up with a database of email addresses
already categorized by interest!
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