full-disclosure - Administrivia (was: RE: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ? )

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From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: Administrivia (was: RE: Re: Microsoft  Security,
 baby steps ? )

madsaxon <madsaxon@...ecway.com> wrote?

> >Also, when sending messages to multiple lists (say F-D and Bugtraq), it
> >seems you may slightly reduce the multiple message spew that often
> >results on F-D because of the above by putting all the addresses in the
> >To: header, rather than one in the To: and the other(s) in CC:.
> 
> Why is that, do you think?

Because, from a rather cursory look at several such multiple mails, 
_some_ of those braindead "I'll forward it to every address I can find 
in the message headers even though it did not originate on-site" re-
posters only seem to do this with messages that have CC: headers.

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald