On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:39:02AM -0800, SJS wrote:

I don't see why a mailing list would /allow/ posts from non-subscribers,
really. Where's the benefit?  If you ain't gonna listen, why are you
talking?

Goodness, what about '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to report bugs.  The developers
will be on the list and certainly want bug reports, but people posting bugs
don't want to be reading the list.  Or say the Linux Kernel Mailing List,
which gets tens of thousands of messages a month.  It overwhelms most
people's mail reading capabilities, so they generally "read" it by looking
at archives or even summaries.  But, they still need to be able to post
issues to it.

The thing is, there are various different kinds of mailing lists, some of
which would be quite harmed by reply-to munging.  The rest are just a
matter of which people you want to annoy.

Dave


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