Date   : Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:33:40 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Broken message headers

Mark McDougall wrote:
> Tom Seddon wrote:
> > I concur... The OS sets the PCR to have bit 0 clear, so the interrupt
 
When did Tom Seddon say this? See, this is what happens when the
headers are broken and replies go to the wrong places, or when
posters send to some arbitary "all addresses" list. Because the
Reply-To isn't set correctly, the posters are inadvertantly
relying on the headers happening to contain EVERY SINGLE EMAIL
ADDRESS OF EVERY SINGLE LIST SUBSCRIBER, and replying on their
email system to construct a bloated outgoing message with a To
line of dozens and dozens of recipients.
 
The other main point, as demonstrated above, is that only those
explicit people that, for example, Tom explicitly posted to
receive hi post, and the list itself didn't, breaking the list
consistancy, destroying the list archive, mangling any threading,
and dumping people in the middle of conversations without any
precursor.
 
This message arrived saying "replyto: mark mcdougal", so without
actually conciously noticing that, and manually editing it I would
be replying to Mark, not to the group.
 
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