[SI-LIST] Re: si-list 'Reply-to:' function now points to sender
- From: Janet Luo <luoxiao30@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:01:28 -0700 (PDT)
May I suggest another useful feature, instead of let
us receiving every individule emails sent to the list
( >20 per day!) could you set a program to lump them
into one text message and send to us on a daily ,
weekly or biweekly schedule, whatever set by user?
Many thanks
Janet Luo
, --- Ray Anderson <Raymond.Anderson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> si-list:
>
> The grand experiment to limit OOP (Out Of Office)
> posts to the list
> users has been underway several weeks now. My
> assessment, (and that
> of quite a number of list users who have contacted
> me off-line) is
> that the negative side-effects of having the
> Reply-To: message header
> point to the list rather than the user outweigh the
> benefits of trapping
> a few OOP messages.
>
>
> Even though the list is currently trapping some OOP
> messages, some still
> manage to leak through and get distributed to all
> 3500+ list members.
> Some user's mailers send the OOP messages directly
> to the user as
> opposed to the list. These can't be trapped. The net
> effect is that
> we are actually consuming more bandwidth on OOP
> messages now than we
> were before. If the OOP messages are really
> distracting, I would suggest
> that individual users configure their mail tools to
> filter out the
> offending messages.
>
> A second factor is that due to the change in the
> behavior of the Reply-To:
> function, a number of users are inadvertently
> sending what was supposed
> to be 'private' e-mail to the list. This has two
> effects: One, it causes
> unecessary bandwidth usage, and two, and probably
> more important, these
> misdirected messages are at best sometimes
> embarrassing, and at worst,
> may be the vehicle for compromising proprietary
> info. So far no real
> damage has occurred as the result of the misdirected
> messages, but sooner
> or later it is bound to happen. (try explaining to
> your manager how the new
> functional spec document for your latest unannounced
> product that you were
> sending to a colleague somehow ended up the
> mailboxes of 3500 of your closest
> friends (and competitors)).
>
> So..... the grand experiment has run it's course. As
> of now, the Reply To:
> function will once again point to the message
> originator rather than the
> list.
>
> Apologies to all those who were annoyed by the
> changes of the past
> few weeks. Apologies to those who actually liked the
> way the experimental
> changes worked.
>
> -Ray Anderson
> si-list admin
>
>
>
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