[OT] Attn. All GMAIL users

Brian Walker bfwalker at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 07:42:16 UTC 2005


Why? ... well

On 7/27/05, Darryl Clarke <smartssa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/26/05, Ali Milis <almilis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The default of gmail.com <http://gmail.com>'s "Reply-To: " is yourself.
> > If you do not like that, you need to click "Settings"
> > and fill "Reply-To: " with "< >". Do not forget that
> > there is a space between "<" and ">".
> >
> > regards,
> >
> 
> Why exactly would one want to break the reply-to?
> 
> Especially on a list that changes the reply-to based on whether or not
> the sender is subscribed?


I would suggest that the amount of spam you receive is directly proportional 
to the number of times a bot has trawled newsgroups to glean your email 
return address. But I may be wrong!

Cheers

Brian

gmail user and paranoid
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