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Adam Back wrote:
> Igor Chudov <[email protected]> writes:
> > Adam Back wrote:
> > > Igor Chudov <[email protected]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > plz do not use bcc
> > >
> > > Why not? It is quite convenient for coping with the non-cross posting
> > > policy of other groups.
> > >
> > > Also what is it with the <[email protected]> forwards, why
> > > are these coming to the list forwarded from that address? Are they
> > > things which failed your procmail filter manually forwarded
> > > afterwards?
> >
> > the answer is that it happens because of my spam filter for cypherpunks.
> >
> > you would not believe how much spam it catches... and bogus mailing
> > lists that cypherpunks were sub-scri-bed to...
> >
> > the theory behind it is that if something was not sent to cypherpunks
> > explicitly, it most likely does not belong there.
> >
> > naturally, I DO forward all stuff that belongs there to the list.
>
> I see.
>
> Any chance you could fix the forwards up so they look like normal
> posts? Maybe stuff them into a file which procmail picks up without
> doing the spam check?
A good point. I will write a shell script for that when I get time.
> I'm not sure why someone would want to do a Bcc
> [email protected] and Cc [email protected] because (if I have
> this right) it'll be cypherpunks which sees the Cc coderpunks, and
> people on cypherpunks will auto-repy to coderpunks, which is the
> opposite of what people on coderpunks want. What people should do is
> Bcc coderpunks (or cryptography) for this purpose.
I would agree with this.
- Igor.