JCL wrote, | Plus addressing is becoming almost common.
Yes. It is largely a good thing. | A decent and steadily rising percentage of my subscribers (I'd guess currently about 8%) are using | plus addressing for their subscriptions to my lists, usually of the form: | bubba-<listname>@some_domain | | eg for this list it might be: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Which isn't quite coopting the list name ala say my subscribing to this | list as: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not the second-worst-equals-good argument again. Couldn't you use [EMAIL PROTECTED], or since the domain is yours, [EMAIL PROTECTED]? If what happened to me was a fluke, consider this variant: you j01n a list as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or you(+/-)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone else posts, and you send a private reply under your membership address; the other person filters for the list on To: or Cc: and, finding it in the folder for the list, mistakes it for a list post, and (a) chews you out for publicizing personal matters, (b) replies to the list with quotes from your private message, or (c) posts something else to the list under the assumption that everybody else has read your message. There is no argument in favor of using the exact name of the list. | I rate unique plus addressing for list subscriptions as a highly | recommendable practice that can be very effective in controlling SPAM | and is one that adapts to current list servers well. Absolutely. I'd do it myself were it not for other impediments. However, nobody holds a gun to your head to use the list's name verbatim. Were I still an active list manager, I would not allow such a su65cription. In 1996 I'd have considered a j01n request from [EMAIL PROTECTED] either an attempt to slip an exploder onto the list without making arrangements first or one to post disruptively, and I'd have told the sender to get lost. In 2002 I'd consider that [or one from [EMAIL PROTECTED], or from [EMAIL PROTECTED] in case of qmail] an honest but short-sighted attempt at facilitating mail sorting and would respond that the applicant had to select some less literal designator [and I'd supply a suggestion or too, just as I proposed "listmgrs" above] and would then be welcome to join the list. (Just in case anybody still doesn't know, Tom Baurley is on vacation for the rest of July. It's very important to him that everyone on list-managers be told repeatedly.)
