Flaw In List Software

Bill McCarthy pmmail@rpglink.com
Thu, 03 Jun 1999 17:47:28 -0400


On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:10:36 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:59:41 -0400, Bill McCarthy wrote:
>
>>>I wonder why you don't use the content of the "Sender:" header for
>>>filtering. This works perfectly for most lists - whether they have
>>>"Reply-To:" headers or not.
>
>>Not as reliable and requires maintenance.
>
>    No, it does not require maintence any more than Reply-To: and is more
>reliable because not all lists set reply-to which is, against my personal
>crusade, legal.

The Reply-To field usually only changes if someone else
takes over a list.  Can't Sender be a@Gate1.b.c one day
and a@Gate2.b.c the next?