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Joseph S. Wisniewski wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 1998, George Tracy wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 May 1998 14:12:18 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time), Jessica
> > Perry Hekman <jphekman@@arborius.net> wrote:
> >
> > >I find it extremely convenient to have mailing lists identify themselves
> > >by placing some identifier in the subject of every post. For voice-users,
> > >this might have made the subject of this post look something like
> > > [voice-users] List identification
> >
> > Since it appears the unofficial straw poll has started I vote No.
> > Most of us don't use Pine. This type of identification is redundant.
> > I'm able to filter on the following header:
> > Return-Path: <owner-voice-users@@shell.flinet.com>
> >
> > If we're going to ask Enrique to do any administriva let's ask him to
> > force the Reply-To field to the list address.
>
> Well, pine 3.96 can co either way, so that's not a valid reason. What is a
> valid reason to do it with the [voice-users] in subject is that that's
> what's been proposed in several diffrent pieces of anti-spam legislation.
> Also, in large corporations, it's not unusual for mail gateways and
> firewalls to do all sorts of interesting things to the to: from: and
> reply: fields. The subject is never touched.
>
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