Administrivia.

[Richard Gooch]

David Woodhouse writes:
> 
> rgooch at ras.ucalgary.ca said:
> >  Um, let me be more clear. If I want to bounce emails which, say, have
> > a high proportion of high-bit characters (guess why:-), I want them to
> > go to the From: address (i.e. the original sender), not the list
> > administrator. I think that's a good thing, since I want to apply the
> > clue-by-four to the sender, and not the list admin.
> 
> > And formail looks at the From: address nicely, just the way I like it
> > :-) 
> 
> In that case, it makes some sense, yes. Unless you also obey
> Reply-To and encounter a list which stupidly sets the Reply-To
> header to go back to the list - another common combination of
> idiocies.

Yeah, stupid Reply-To: set by some arrogant list administrators
(XFree86 and ISC, to name two). The hardline approach is: tough.
But there is an easy solution to that as well:

| sed -e 's/^Reply-To:.*@isc\.org/Bogus-&/'

> As long as you don't respond to messages with _NULL_ reverse-path
> (i.e.  error messages), that is.

Hm. Never tried that. Not sure what happens, but I suspect the
auto-reply would be bounced back. That's harmless (easy to filter to
/dev/null).

				Regards,

					Richard....
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