On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:40:16PM -0500, Vox wrote: > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > Vox, who thanks the emacs-deities for gnus ability to deal with the > broken behaviour of mungled lists.
I've had this discussion with Chip before. I think the way the Mandrake list is currently setup is a good compromise between the two opposing views. I'm on lists that don't do this and on some that do. I get a lot of errant emails sent privately to me on the lists that don't munge and see very few list postings that were meant to go private. But I think that really depends on the list. I think it's pretty rare for replies to continue off list. At any rate it doesn't really matter who's "right." The list is setup that way. And just as people have to adapt to lists that don't munge, they need to adapt to lists that do. I am on both sorts of lists. I'm aware of how to work with both. And mutt gives me a helping hand in dealing with it. Ultimately what it comes down to is we have to deal with the way things are done on the list we are on. However, one thing I will point out is that setting a Reply-To header that's a duplicate of your From field doesn't serve any purpose on a non-munged list. And only serves to break the expected behavior on a munged list. I really didn't mean to start a discussion on this *again*. Just meant to point out the effect the Reply-To header had for some people that he may not have been aware of. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
