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Re:Mail Loop From Hell (2012) by delinka on Thursday December 13, 2018 @08:45PM (#18677748)
When I hear these stories, I wonder why the boneheads writing the original don't just put the distribution list in BCC. Reply-All neutered.

In a recent experience, I Replied to All (in BCC) to explain how BCC works and all the replies to my email stayed off the list.

Re:Mail Loop From Hell (2012) by michaelcampbell on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:41AM (#18680692)
And bypassed everyone's filters for list mail. Bravo.
Re:Mail Loop From Hell (2012) by jsjohnst on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:59AM (#18680799)
Setup your filters correctly and that’s not an issue. “From” is rarely the right header to use for an email list filter.
Re:Mail Loop From Hell (2012) by michaelcampbell on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:28AM (#18681982)
This doesn't even make sense; a filter that filters on From: wouldn't detect the sender having used a bcc:. To: is more the issue here.
Re:Mail Loop From Hell (2012) by jsjohnst on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:34AM (#18687365)
I meant to say To, my mistake there. That doesn’t negate my point, almost all mailing lists include a List-ID and/or other similar fields. That’s included even when the list was bcc’d and is what you should be filtering on, not the To: field. Gmail even uses it automatically when you click on a message from a mailing list and click “filter messages like this”.