I don't recall seeing this topic discussed here and I'm very interested in what folks think about this issue. Memail.com has just begun switching their elists from having the address of the elist in the message TO header to having the subscribed address in the message TO header. Personally, I'm disappointed because I think only personal email should have my address in the message TO header I know all the reasons why elist managers themselves like this, notably because they get better error messages when email fails and also because it helps remind the subscriber how they got started. But why I really dislike it is because it screws up vacation/out-of-office announcement programs, which are not supposed to reply unless the recipient appears in the message headers. For me personally it also screws up my email filtering, because the first distinction I make is to test whether a message is personal email, i.e., addressed directly to me. Elists are just not personal email. Now I know its Lyris and Link Communications behind what MeMail.Com is doing. I don't really fault Lyris, per se, since I understand the view of doing what the client wants. I also know they don't need it since they do everything else an elist technology can do in the space of managing failed mail. But I also know there are no real "rules" in this space so I decided to get some opinions. Hence my question. Do you think it is appropriate for elists to address their messages as if they were personal email? Thanks, Jim
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