Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: PyWart(2.7.8) IDLE is more buggy than "Joe's apartment"! Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <232acf45-096d-466a-aa75-06d8c378b128@googlegroups.com> <53cc376e$0$2898$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <53926733-5e65-482f-96bc-0171c6a93d59@googlegroups.com> <4882fd4d-b772-4ebb-8aaa-0c20be6051b6@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1405961727 29059 64.122.56.22 (21 Jul 2014 16:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:55:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:74932 On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Shiyao Ma wrote: >> No intent to pollute this thread. >> >> But really interested in the invalid@invalid.invalid mailing address. >> And,,, obviously, I cannot send to invalid@invalid.invalid, so >> >> How does you(he) make this? > > When you send email, you have to have a valid envelope-from address, > which can be found in the headers. But the From: address doesn't > technically have to be valid. Note that a lot of mail servers and/or spam filters will think it's spam if it isn't. > And if the email you received actually came from the news<->mail > gateway, It did. > then it's even less significant; the address used is simply whatever > Grant chose to key into his newsreader, which in this case is a > marker saying "Please don't email me, just follow-up to the group" :) If people really do want to e-mail me, that's fine. What I'm trying to avoid is people who e-mail my without knowing they're doing so because that's the default setting for whatever broken-by-design email client, web-UI, or newsreading they happen to be using. If people conciously want to e-mail me, all they can by using the address in my sig. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Wait ... is this a FUN at THING or the END of LIFE in gmail.com Petticoat Junction??