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Re: Unacceptable homepages service...

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From: Stephen M Baines
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:19
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Previously, Tony Morgan <tonym@atomor.demon.co.uk> wrote

>If I you wish to reply to a post, you hit 'reply' and you are given a
>choice or whether to reply to news, or via e-mail (at least any half-
>decent newsreader will give you the choice). Now if I select 'e-mail'
>for whatever reason - I get rather pissed-off if I have then to do some
>de-coding or whatever simply to reply by e-mail.
>
>Every newsreader automatically directs the e-mail to that in the
>'author' field of the post header by default.... now I wonder why?

I'm pretty sure that this newsreader automatically goes to the reply-to
address, if it's present, which if correctly set gets around all those
sorts of problems and still seems to get around the problem of e-mail
address harvesting.
-- 
Stephen M Baines                        http://www.motorsport.org.uk
http://www.motorsport.org.uk/me

Not exactly happy today, so excuse any biting. 
Normal service may be resumed shortly. Hopefully. 
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From: Stephen M Baines <stephen@the-view-from-your-balcony.motorsport.org.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.service,demon.homepages.authoring
Subject: Re: Unacceptable homepages service...
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:19:06 +0000
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