[Public-List] About the list (was: Sheet-to-tiller steering)

[George Dinwiddie]

Daniel,

This is simple email, though the messages are also archived on the 
server (http://lists.alberg30.org/pipermail/public-list-alberg30.org/). 
Since there are 289 email addresses subscribed, plus the archives, you 
don't want to post anything you don't want the world to know.

If you want to send a private message, send it to the person's actual 
email address rather than to the list.

This is a little more complicated than it should be. Because of 
poorly-designed anti-spam safeguards by many ISPs, including some of the 
largest, the list has to "munge" the from address so that the mail comes 
from the domain hosting the list.

If you look at the headers, you'll see the From header specifies
   Daniel Swords via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
This means that plain replies go back to the list, even though it shows 
your name. This is not how email was designed to work, but corporations 
such as AOL have decided they don't need to follow the Internet RFC 
standards.

There is also another header
   Cc: Daniel Swords <danielswords at yahoo.com>
which shows your actual email address. When I want to reply just to the 
sender, I do a "reply all," delete the list address on the reply, and 
change the outgoing "CC" to "To."

  - George

On 9/26/21 2:59 PM, Daniel Swords via Public-List wrote:
>      Is it possible to private message on this site or am I allowed to post my cell phone number or email address so that someone could text me and I could send them a short video and some photos?  I will gladly post my email and phone number but don’t want to violate any protocols.
> Daniel SwordsSolitude, Hull #525

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