Re: French Cultural Ministry and Email Warfare

From: Peter Westlake (peter@harlequin.co.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 30 1998 - 10:22:34 EST


At 06:24 1998-11-30 -0800, you wrote:
>In message <9811301339.AA22032@unicode.org>
> Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I suggest that bottin@culture.fr is immediately unsubscribed from
>> unicode@unicode.org and postings from @culture.fr are blocked until the
>> French Ministry for Culture and Communication has slaughtered its crazy
>> email system, which obviously violates numerous Internet mail standards
>> and severely disrupts mailing lists.
>>
>
>It should be noted that there is a point of view that states that putting
>"Reply-To: unicode@unicode.org" in outgoing e-mail headers is just asking
>for this sort of thing to happen...

For details and supporting arguments, see
"``Reply-To'' Munging Considered Harmful" at:
<http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.

Peter.



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