bcc and list filtering.

[John C. Welch]

On 3/7/04 9:12 PM, "Dan Shoop" <shoop at iwiring.net> wrote:

> At 4:28 PM -0800 3/7/04, Bill Lloyd wrote:
>> Except filtering on "any recipient" doesn't work!  The issue is that
>> people were sending the message with the list in the bcc.  The name
>> of the list didn't appear in ANY recipient list, so it is impossible
>> to filter it by using a recipient.
> 
> Well right, but this was a "user operations error", you shouldn't be
> filtering lists based on TO or CC preccisely b/c the right way to
> cross post to lists is to BCC to them. This is why LIST- headers
> exist.

And it makes it much easier to spam lists too!

john

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