[R-390] List Admin Trivia

[Don Reaves]

>From the generous owner of our list host provider: (slightly edited by DR)

*Recent actions by Yahoo have caused a large amount of bounced email and
automatic unsubscribes from various email lists. If you want to read the
gory details go here:*

* http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC
<http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC>*

* This afternoon I upgraded the list software on the mailman.qth.net
<http://mailman.qth.net> email server to hopefully eliminate the issue.
The main side effect is this:*

* If the sender of a message is coming from Yahoo or one of the domains
that Yahoo controls you will notice a few different things about those
messages when they go to the list:*

* - Messages will appear to come from a munged email address not belonging
to the sender.  If the sender has his name set in his email client or on
the list server then messages will appear to come from a user appearing
like this in the From field: "Firstname Lastname via LISTNAME" or something
similar.*

* - The poster's email is preserved and appears in the Reply-To field.*

*SO to reply to the list, the poster will have to specifically select Reply
All in his email client in order for his response to go to the entire
list.  In some cases this represents no change.  This is probably a safer
setting and avoids embarrassment for those who can't resist being nasty and
vindictive in their emails.*


*[snip]*

*I would further suggest that you might want to send a general note to your
list to encourage people to resubscribe and that the bounce/unsubscribe
issues should be behind us now.*

*Thanks,*

*George Fremin III - K5TR*
DR: Summary:  if you reply to a posting that you want to be posted to the
list, make sure you reply-all to yahoo specific posters - otherwise the
response only goes to the original poster.
Reply all will likely become a necessary requirement in the future.
Several lists already operate this way.

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Don Reaves W5OR
R-390 list manager

donreaves at gmail.com
w5or at arrl.net
r-390-owner at qth.net