You're not alone. Not only does it go against the RFCs, it's terribly annoying.
Regarding blocking of outside posts to the list, the typical solution is to just forward posts from outside mailers to the list moderator(s). This is how mailman handles it, for instance. --Josh At 23:41 on 04/08/2002 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Moses, Luke wrote: > > Further more, if a non-member emailed the group, there is no guarantee that > > *every* person that replied to that individual email would do a reply to > > all, so the non-member that sends the email would not get to see many of th e > > replies to their email, unless they were a member. > > > > If someone wants to send posts to this list and get all of the results, the y > > should be a part of the list. If they are not, there is no guarantee that > > they will get all of the feed back, unless we all do a reply to all on each > > email. > > Doing a reply to all is quite common for the mailinglist I'm on. It's > very useful. IMHO the reply-to header is just wrong. > > Jeroen Dekkers > -- > Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org > IRC: jeroen@openprojects >
