On 22 Jul 2021 at 3:47, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > I just got a CC from the EVDL. Is carbon copy now allowed with EVDL > messages?
Short Answer: Yes and no. Best Answer: No. Long answer: No, but yes under some circumstances. Even Longer Answer: Because of antispam measures that big email providers put in place a few years ago, the list software has to change the headers of messages, or they'll be rejected when they get to some mailboxes. (Email me offlist if you want further explanation of this.) As part of this header-munging, the list software jams the sender's address into the CC field. When you reply to a post, some overly-helpful email clients add THAT address, the original sender's, to the CC field in your reply. (By the way, this header tweaking is the reason that the now-moribund Nabble archive stopped tagging our posts with the actual senders' names a few years ago. Nabble could have fixed it. Don't get me started.) Anyway, the listserver doesn't like receiving posts that have any address other than [email protected]. This is for the sake of privacy - it doesn't know whether any extra address is a list member whose address has already been revealed, or whether it's someone's private non-list address. (You'd think it could check that, but it doesn't.) So, if you send a post with more than just [email protected], the listserver will hold it until I have a chance to check it and make sure that there are no private offlist addresses in it. That could be anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. At least it's supposed to, though it seems to miss such posts at times, for reasons I don't understand. The bottom line: please put [email protected] in TO - and nothing else. And definitely don't ever add email addresses of people who aren't members of this list in the TO or CC fields. If you must add more addresses, put them in the BCC field. Clear as 20 year old Ford plastic headlight lenses? Thank you for paying attention to this stuff. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Too many people make it their business to make their business things that are none of their business. -- Lolapin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
