Mailing list address harvested for spamming

[Michael A. Peters]

On 12/01/2018 05:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> 
> There's an extensive email etiquette post somewhere on the net
> explaining why setting 'reply-to' to the list is a bad idea.
> 
> Reply-to is intended for the sender to explain that replies shouldn't
> be sent to the obvious sending address, but to another address.
> This is essential if, say, the sender is temporarily away from home and s using a friend's email service.
> 
> It is unfortunate that there are user-agents that do not provide the
> reply-to-list' option.  And that there are mailing list programs that
> do not provide the proper list-headers to indicate the mailing list
> address.
> 

The problem though is that then muscle memory with keyboard shortcuts 
result in reply going to the user instead of list.

Netiquette posts are just someone's opinion, and they often don't take 
into account the vastly different way different types of minds work.

Just as an example, I have a deaf friend who hates bottom posting 
because the way captions always work is equivalent to top posting - new 
content pops up above the old content, so the flow she expects is 
opposite but netiquette nazis scream at her when she top posts.