* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-05 20:02:46 +0200]: > http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
I've read that before; doesn't change the fact that arbitrarily overwriting the Reply-To: header destroys information. > A good portion of my members (mostly newbies) use various web-based > mailers. They haven't a "Reply to all" button. Then their mailer is broken and they need to fix/change it. Two wrongs don't make a right. > The members are newbies in computers - what I should do, refuse them > in medical help until they buy own computer (a year average monetary > income here) and master it? Please remember that almost all members > on non-technical lists are FAR less savvy than you are. That's not a compelling argument. There are plenty of web-based mailers that _do_ have a group-reply function (geez, even Hotmail and Yahoo can handle that much). This all really comes down to one thing, and I apologize to everyone if this comes out a bit harsh but it's a pet peeve of mine. I really could care less what a newbie "expects to see", I care about doing the right thing. Hopefully they coincide, but this is one of those cases where they don't, and penalizing all the members of a mailing list by having their Reply-To's erased just so that some newbie doesn't have to think is not acceptable to me. It's the Outlook virus, and I'm not talking about a computer virus this time. Ford doesn't provide a chauffeur with every new car. Learn the tool. -- John ! Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid Buttery! thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers www.io.c! and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than om/~john! having to think. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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