Mailing list administrivia

[Brian K. White]

On 5/3/2015 2:55 PM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
> On 4/23/2015 1:15 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
>> I updated the Mailman mailing list manager this morning to deal
>> with delivery problems with some sites (e.g. Yahoo!) that are
>> picky about DMARC compliance.  The primary effect will be that
>> the From: address will appear as the posting address for the
>> list, not the original sender's From:.
>>
>> Any existing Reply-To: header should be untouched.  The original
>> user's From: address should be put in a Reply-To: if I understand
>> the Mailman documentation.
>
> (Catching up on old mail.  Not sure yet if this has changed.)
>
> My vote:  I don't like it.
>
> If for no other reason, when I see all the messages on the list, they
> all show as being from "FilePro Mailing List" rather than the real
> sender.  As long as you're munging "From:" would it be possible to at
> least keep the name part unchanged?
>
> As in:
>
>      From: "Kenneth Brody" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>
> Not sure if that's any better, but at least it would show the sender's
> name without having to read every message first.
>

THIS. Exactly.

I am using an unknown little mail client called Thunderbird that 
practically no one in the world uses.

All messages show up as just being from filepro mail list.
If the user doesn't put something in the body or signature, I got 
nothing to go on.

Most messages have a reply-to that sometimes gives a clue, but sometimes 
does not. For instance, who the heck is "jwccsllc at me.com"?

Additionally, I used to be able to just click on the from column in the 
inbox and sort by from, and gather all the messages from Foo together. 
Now I guess I could do a more involved process using the search feature.

I also don't like that the many are being penalized, to cater to the few 
who are actually in the wrong.

If being blacklisted is a problem, then make the CAUSE of the problem 
suffer the burden of the problem THEY caused, not everyone else.

Blacklist those receiving hosts yourself, so that your server (or at 
least mailman) never sends mail to them, then they will no longer 
receive mails they don't like and won't blacklist you any more.

Please at least do Ken's suggestion above. I was thinking that myself as 
I was reading the old posts.

https://plus.google.com/118440353893255425460/posts/bRLAoZSxLii

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bkw