Re: Reply Addresses?

From: Mel Wilson (mwilson@interlog.com)
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 10:08:46 -0400

In article <oMHdzIIelU4O091yn@netins.net>,
phdss@netins.net (Brett Tabke) wrote:
>How are you handling the ever increasing hassle of a correct reply
>address? This is getting to be such a total headache that I'm
>almost ready to switch from the beloved Yarn to something else -
>there has to be a better way.

Do you mean the problem of getting replies to people who have
spoofed their own From: addresses so as not to be put on spam lists?

Tough in principle, because a program that would reconstitute a real
e-mail address is just what these people are hiding from. I'm using
kedit for my reply editor, so I should try to build some kind of macro
that would take selected text and patch it into the To: line. A
challenge would be to make it smart enough to
- replace "(dot)" with ".", "/at/" with "@", etc
- remove "NOSPAM" or "getthe@_#&outofmyemail"
and handle all the other (necessarily) non-standard things people are
cooking up.

Up to now, I've limited myself to mainly following-up in newsgroups,
and ignoring the occasional e-mail reply that bounces.

Or you're referring to another technical problem I haven't heard of.

Regards. Mel.