On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote:
Every time I post to Vortex-l I receive this immediately from Russia:
Do you know what it's about?
Header follows:
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.220.118.134 with SMTP id v6csp307779vcq;
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:44:09 -0700 (PDT)
-----Original Message-----
From: "?????? ??????" [mailto:[email protected]]
One clue: there's a vortex-L subscriber: MkIV [email protected]
Probably the message is some sort of private auto-reply to vortex users.
But only to you and nobody else here?
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Vo]:Seasonal variation of halflife: tritium test
Another clue: your gmail is configured oddly. You have it set to take
over the "Reply-To" line in your header. Normally that's left blank.
Then, if you're subscribed to a typical mailing list, the list software
sees the blank reply-to, and inserts the list address. That forces all of
our list replies to automatically go to vortex-L by default, rather than
replying privately to the posted message. If nobody else is getting these
auto-reply messages, your Reply-To setting might be the trigger.
Also note that currently if anyone on vortex replies to your postings,
their mail sw will (probably silently) send the reply only to your private
email addr and never post it to vortex. I don't know how to configure
Reply-To in gmail. Other gmail users (jed, terry, peter g etc.) have
blank Reply-To line, so either they had to figure out the setting, or
perhaps gmail defaults to blank, and yours got changed somehow.
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