William Gallafent wrote:
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:54, ken wrote:
So it's okay for someone to put in a Reply-To of, say, ogre@homelandsecurity.gov and this listserver will diligently pass that through to all of us, so that anyone not carefully watching the headers might send an email there. Nice feature!
It's only OK for the originator of the message to do this, not just anybody!
And this makes a relevant difference how?
... but yes, if you don't look at the recipient fields of the message you're about to send before you send it, this sort of thing might happen.
Even worse, if you don't check the recipient fields, you might send a private reply to a poster to the list, rather than to the list itself ;)
You might be overlooking the gravity of this "feature". Do you really think we should expect that everyone will examine carefully the headers of every they send? E.g., Should the list server do nothing with this added to an email: Reply-To: suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ... or any number of others anyone might dream up?