[XCSSA] XCSSA attire

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Feb 3, 2010, at 7:58 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:

> X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>> Yeah but there's gotta be a way around that. Of *all* the mailing lists I am on, XCSSA is the only one that does this. Can't we at least preserve names but strip e-mail? Surely there is a way in Mailman to do that?
>> 
>> (intentionally posting anonymously to prove a point before you bust me on it, Dennis :)
>> 
>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 7:49 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>> 
>>> Well,
>>> 
>>> When this board didn't strip the "from" information, I use to get
>>> 30-50 spam mails (not from XCSSA) per message posted.
>>> 
>>> Craig
>>> 
> 
> Actually, the way around it is to be courteous to the rest of the list 
> and put your name on the bottom of your posts.  That was explained to me 
> once, and probably to others as well.  Thanks, Dennis in Edna

It's an error-prone solution. It's like on the right side of the road 90% of the time but then having to drive on the left side the other 10%. You can imagine the accidents that would ensue. Again, of *all* the lists I am on (including public ones), this is the only list that does this.

I certainly try to be courteous as much as possible, but fixing it programmatically involves no error because there is nothing human about it. It just works. I would be very surprised to find out that Mailman couldn't grab a person's name from the From header bit strip off the e-mail.

Adding that would avoid all sorts of problems, in my opinion and we would never have to have these silly discussions about it and can just concentrate on the cool stuff, like the awesome t-shirt that started this thread.

Tim