Mailing list address harvested for spamming

[Phil Turmel]

On 12/2/18 5:58 PM, Noel Butler wrote:

> Lots of posts around about this, all self serving :)
>  
> There may of course be an RFC floating around, but I admit to never
> having bothered to look, because good netizens reply to list, lists are
> public, they are for the masses - the membership - the subscriber base,
> never seen the point in replying privately to a list post, since the
> answer deprives the list membership of, the answer, so you avoid getting
> 1500 people ask the same damn question.

Reply-to-all is a requirement for public mailing lists that do not
require posters to be members.  Like everything at kernel.org.  Failing
to reply-to-all will exclude non-members, and will get you deserved
abuse on such lists.

Other lists have other policies and/or conventions.  What's so hard
about following the conventions of the lists you participate on?
Especially if requested by the list owner?

Phil