Speedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13 Dec 2001 21:23:07 -0600 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 20:50, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > > Speedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And maybe set up the list to only accept and pass on mail from > legit > > > > subscribers, to stem the flow of SPAM and virii? > > > > > > Good idea. > > > > Agreed, but the plural of virus is viruses. It's a common > misconception > > that it's virii (I too thought it was). A quick search will reveal > the > > reasons. > > The plural of mouse is mice, but the computer industry calls them > mouses.
I believe that "mouse" as in rodent and "mouse" as in the superflous pointing-device are different things and the plurals (plurii?) are, accordingly, different as well. Incidentally, I believe that the plural of "virus" (as in Microsoft) is "virus". > > > > Also, every other > > > > list I am on will reply to the list when I hit "reply", whereas > this > > > > one replies to the sender. Could that be changed as well? > > > > > > Not everybody agrees on this issue. In general, it probably is a > good > > > idea if the ML does not set or modify any headers. Try a search on > > > google on this topic to read up on the different viewpoints. > > > > Header Munging (as it is more commonly known) is a very bad practice > > that breaks several different things. As indicated, a quick search > will > > show the different view points on this. Additionally, I would advise > > getting a client that supports replying to a mailing list. Another topic we just covered ;-) Mutt is very good with MLs. > (BTW Jan: I changed some > settings, and I hope my lines now wrap at the 72 characters I _thought_ > that I had set before) Almost - you will notice in the above (unaltered) quotations that there are some nasty linebreaks where they shouldn't be. > So I just have to be more careful when replying. I'm not afraid to use > my brain... Hooray. Welcome to the who me? -Jan -- http://www.netmeister.org http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/
