Hi all,
I'm not sure how they did it, or how it copes with the potential
vacation-response disaster, but the FSL mailing list (also hosted at
jiscmail) does indeed have the reply-to address set as the list.
I guess maybe the vacation responses go out to the "From:" rather than
the "Reply-to:" which would fix this, but this probably depends on the
mail client.
Best,
Ged.
Mark Daglish wrote:
> Hi John et al,
>
> I would be very wary of using [log in to unmask] as the reply-to
> address. Is there not a danger of a recurring loop with "Vaccation"
> programs? In the past, when posting to the list I have always had a
> number of replies from subscribers of the sort of "out-of-office"
> variety. If these were sent to [log in to unmask], wouldn't they then
> be sent back out to every user, including the accounts with the
> automated replies - causing a loop. I seem to remember something like
> this happening 2 years ago when >4500 emails got sent out to everyone on
> the list in <15 minutes.
>
> I may be wrong, but just a cautionary note.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> John Ashburner wrote:
>>> some time back the general setting of email sent to the SPM mailing list
>>> were changed to include an [SPM] tag in the subject line. This really
>>> improved spam filtering a lot.
>>>
>>
>> This setting is one that users specify themselves
>> (seehttp://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm). I simply took the
>> liberty of changing everyones settings. More recent subscribers will
>> not have an [SPM] tag in the subject line of their emails.
>>
>>
>>> I wonder how the community feels about another change. I often
>>> encounter
>>> the situation that I read an interesting question on the mailing
>>> list, but
>>> it is never answered on the mailing list. I assume that not all these
>>> emails remain unanswered, but rather that the experts answering these
>>> questions hit the 'Reply'-Button in their email client and the response
>>> goes directly to the person's personal mail account from which the
>>> question
>>> was posted.
>>>
>>
>> I suspect that people actually choose who they send their replies to.
>> If this was suddenly changed, then there will be a lot more private
>> stuff exposed on the list. I guess this would make the list a bit
>> more interesting.
>>
>>
>>> My suggestion would be to change the Reply-To field of all incoming
>>> emails
>>> automatically to [log in to unmask], thus insuring that response end
>>> up on
>>> the mailing list so that other interested people can read them as well.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure how this would be done. I've had a quick look
>> through the documentation at JISCMail and don't see any options that
>> would allow the lists to be configured this way.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -John
>>
>
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