I like that idea. Maybe we should give it a try. Any good reason not to? 
Presumably we would discover fairly quickly if it caused more spam-canning 
problems.

Robin

On 14 Mar 2012, at 09:52, Alex Stapleton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 14/03/12 08:26, Mark Goodge wrote:
>> My guess is that what's happening is that they've taken the one-time address 
>> generated by WDTK for the first request, and then stored that in their 
>> system as your address, and any subsequent requests from you are being 
>> replied to that address. Or, more simply, whoever is replying is just 
>> looking for "Paul Perrin" in their Outlook address book and taking the first 
>> match. 
> (I am making an awful lot of assumptions about how things work currently here 
> but...)
> 
> What about instead of sending the message from
> 
> "Paul Perrin <[email protected]>"
> 
> You do
> 
> "Paul Perrin [Title of FOIA Request] <[email protected]>"
> 
> Obviously the responder can still screw up and choose the wrong return 
> address, this way does seem like it would make it easier to do the right 
> thing using the erroneous work-flow you described them using.
> 
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