Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-25 Thread gottlieb
At Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:00:40 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had
> that. Which mail client has that?

Emacs/gnus has this f (followup) or F (followup, include original).

Both are located just to the right of the third hot water faucet. :-)

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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-25 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:10 am, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

Next you'll be claiming it doesn't matter whether you use vi or emacs
;-)

Let's not get into religion on this list. ;)
Hehe, I use both...
Wonder where that takes me...
/Andreas
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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:10 am, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Next you'll be claiming it doesn't matter whether you use vi or emacs
> ;-)

Let's not get into religion on this list. ;)

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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:23:39 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> My statement does not concern offensive, libellous, or embarrassing
> emails  at all. :P  My statement concerns the fictional "loss of
> information"  associated with not sending to the list.

It is not fictional. if the list has all the questions but only half the
answers, the archives are severely reduced in usefulness. This is
especially true if someone posts an incorrect answer but the replies
correcting him go by private mail. When the purpose of the list dictates
that replies should most usefully go straight back to it, adding a
suitable reply-to is sensible.

> I disagree.  It's a very clear issue.  Altering an existing Reply-To is 
> wrong. :P

I never mentioned altering an existing reply to. In doing that, the server
is removing information from the original mail, which should not happen.
There are listservs out there that will add a Reply-To but not replace
one.

> I'm only half serious here, don't take this as incendiary as it sounds.
> :)

Next you'll be claiming it doesn't matter whether you use vi or emacs ;-)


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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2005 10:01 am, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:08:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > No, it's not.  You can *always* send a message again if it was
> > supposed to  go to the list. You *can't* retract a message if it was
> > not supposed to go  to the list.
>
> If you are going to send potentially offensive, libellous or
> embarrassing emails, you should check carefully where you are sending
> them, instead of relying on a setting on a remote server that can be
> changed, without notice, at the admin's whim.

-1 Offtopic. :)

My statement does not concern offensive, libellous, or embarrassing emails 
at all. :P  My statement concerns the fictional "loss of information" 
associated with not sending to the list.  It also concerns to actuall 
"waste of bandwidth" associated with sending to a list unintentionally.  
Of course, in this day and age, I don't think the bandwidth is much to be 
concerned about, unless the mailing list software is "stupid" enough to 
send out a message consisting of "My ISO I made with Catalyst doesn't 
work." plus said ISO attached without some sort of administrative 
approval.

> Making the default action to be a reply to the list makes sense for a
> list such as this one. For other lists, that may not be the case. This
> is not a black and white issue, the best approach depends on the
> circumstances.

I disagree.  It's a very clear issue.  Altering an existing Reply-To is 
wrong. :P

I'm only half serious here, don't take this as incendiary as it sounds. :)

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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:08:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> No, it's not.  You can *always* send a message again if it was supposed
> to  go to the list. You *can't* retract a message if it was not supposed
> to go  to the list.

If you are going to send potentially offensive, libellous or embarrassing
emails, you should check carefully where you are sending them, instead of
relying on a setting on a remote server that can be changed, without
notice, at the admin's whim.

Making the default action to be a reply to the list makes sense for a list
such as this one. For other lists, that may not be the case. This is not a
black and white issue, the best approach depends on the circumstances.


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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2005 07:43 am, William Kenworthy 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wrong, a reply that does not go back to the list is knowledge lost to
> the community ...

No, it's not.  You can *always* send a message again if it was supposed to 
go to the list. You *can't* retract a message if it was not supposed to go 
to the list.

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RE: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread William Kenworthy
Wrong, a reply that does not go back to the list is knowledge lost to
the community ... 

BillK

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 08:28 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
> > I know that today I sent two messages back to the people who originally
> > posted when I really wanted it to go back to the list.  Yes I was not
> > thinking and just did a reply (which should have gone to the list).
> 
> That's just it - the thought process should go into which messages go to the
> list, not which messages go to the OP.
> 
> Of course the OP should always get the reply, but the list as a whole should
> not.
> 
> 
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RE: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I know that today I sent two messages back to the people who originally
> posted when I really wanted it to go back to the list.  Yes I was not
> thinking and just did a reply (which should have gone to the list).

That's just it - the thought process should go into which messages go to the
list, not which messages go to the OP.

Of course the OP should always get the reply, but the list as a whole should
not.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Susbauer
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ - Has quite a few
Dennis Taylor wrote:
Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
out of circulation for a few years could find out what things 
like MUA mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember 
from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me 
clueless.

-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken
Andrea Barisani wrote:

and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to
discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.

Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page 
about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo 
(mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?

That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:17 pm, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:54:51 -0600
>
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > No, that's not the best thing.  It break emails that use the reply-to
> > header for it's original (and standards-compliant) behavior.  It may
> > be easy, but that doesn't make it right.
> >
> > Please read, if you haven't already, the document Andrea linked.
>
> And then read this one and then argue about it forever!
>
> http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

This document does not refute the "Can't Find My Way Back Home" point in 
reply-to-considered-harmful.  The composer of the email is given "first 
rights" to the Reply-To header, munging it causes information loss (and it 
can be important information).  I have no problem with list software 
*adding* the Reply-To header, but overwriting an existing one is a recipe 
for disaster.

Also a quote from http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html :
"But the arguments in [reply-to-useful] very easily refutable 
[http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.txt], as I wrote in the 
following post when participating to a thread on the mailman lists."

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
Oh #$#R*&Y not again, please check the (ancient) archives on why this
list was changed from the behaviour that you seem to have initiated
without consultation with the list.

In short:
1) many replies to the list (and the expertise it represented) were lost
as most people never bothered to navigate down the menus to readd the
list to the reply - note that this is a user behaviour, not an automatic
action and its not in human nature to do extra work unnecessarily.  This
is THE major reason to retain the old behaviour.

2)the user ends up with two replies because its extra clicks to delete
them - why bother?

3) annoying the user base unnecessarily - respect the users because
without them gentoo will die

4) most user based email lists work at the old behaviour for the above
reasons

5)on past behaviour, be ready for a continuing flame war and questions
"why does this list work differently to every other email list I am
on ..." that will negate any gains you think you have made

6)this is one of the most annoying problems with gmail - if you get an
email direct from a gentoo user and not to the list, it was most likely
due to a gmmail account

Enough said, change it back, NOW.

(yes, this has pissed me off)

BillK


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:32 +0100, Andrea Barisani wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the 
> > list... is that an intentional change?
> > 
> > I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead.
> > 
> > /Andreas
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> >
> 
> The Reply-To header is useless since all MUA supports the "reply to
> list/all/sender" functions and usually reply-to should be set by the 
> person who's sending the message.
> 
> Take a look at this:
> 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> Cheers
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Rout

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:54:51 -0600
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

>
> 
> No, that's not the best thing.  It break emails that use the reply-to 
> header for it's original (and standards-compliant) behavior.  It may be 
> easy, but that doesn't make it right.
> 
> Please read, if you haven't already, the document Andrea linked.
> 

And then read this one and then argue about it forever!

http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

My personal view, from a large number of lists I have been on and remain
on, is that reply-to munging has more advantages than disdvantages.
Thats a personal view and there are arguments both ways. It seems that
Andrea has changed back to munging, thanks for that Andrea.

Frankly if it changes to no munging  I will be disappointed, but my life
will not be over. HOWEVER, I would say to you Andrea, or whoever else is
in charge, please please tell the list before you make changes, and with
a day or so's notice!



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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Karsten Baumgarten wrote:
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Holly Bostick wrote:
| Andrea Barisani wrote:
|
|> and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no
|> time to
|> discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.
|>
|
| Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page
| about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo
| (mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?
|
| That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.
Even though Andrea had (was forced?) to revert the changes for the
"reasons" mentioned in this thread, here's the simple solution for
Thunderbird users: Instead of using "Reply to sender" or "Reply to all"
simply use the "Edit as new" option to compose a message to the mailing
list.
Regards,
Karsten
Hey, now, that's a useful idea! Thanks!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidson
On 19:03 Wed 23 Feb , Holly Bostick wrote:
> Andrea Barisani wrote:
> 
> >and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time 
> >to
> >discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.
> >
> 
> Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page 
> about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo 
> (mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?

There are already docs for mutt. It's in the gentoo desktop docs.

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KQEMU was Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:04:30PM -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> Go ahead, if you like preaching to the choir. :-) In the land
> of Perfect, there would be no Windoze, but I don't live in
> perfect.
> 
> I said long ago that Norton Anti-virus is not very effective
> because it does not detect windows as a virus. :-(
> 

Windows self replicate? Does that mean my QEMU installation will start
backing itself up? This could come in handy. =)

In any case, has anyone played with QEMU lately? I currently don't
have the guts to install an alpha-stage kernel patch, so I haven't yet
tested out KQEMU aka the QEMU accelerator. Any comments on that?

(and no, please don't refer me to /., the source of myriad
mis-information)

Also, how does /proc/cpuinfo get its data? I think the Bogomips number
is calculated at boot time, no? How about the CPU speed? I am asking
because if I tried booting linux in QEMU under my gentoo box, the
Emulated OS reports the exact same data in /proc/cpuinfo compared to
the host OS, except for a bogomips number that is slightly slower
(IIRC something like 70% of the host OS). I know that bogomips are NOT
the best way of measuring performance, but consider the following:

 From the QEMU website http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
   * Without the KQEMU module, the guest OS should run at 10 to 20% of
 of a native OS on the same computer.
   * With the module on x86 machines, the guest OS can run at 50% or
 better. 

So either bogomips as a way of gauging performance is a lot more
broken than I imagined, or Fabrice Bellard significantly
underestimated the performance of his own code 

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:17:19 +0100, Karsten Baumgarten wrote:

> Even though Andrea had (was forced?) to revert the changes for the
> "reasons" mentioned in this thread, here's the simple solution for
> Thunderbird users: Instead of using "Reply to sender" or "Reply to all"
> simply use the "Edit as new" option to compose a message to the mailing
> list.

Won't that remove the In-Reply-To header and thus break threading?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
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Holly Bostick wrote:
| Andrea Barisani wrote:
|
|> and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no
|> time to
|> discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.
|>
|
| Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page
| about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo
| (mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?
|
| That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.
Even though Andrea had (was forced?) to revert the changes for the
"reasons" mentioned in this thread, here's the simple solution for
Thunderbird users: Instead of using "Reply to sender" or "Reply to all"
simply use the "Edit as new" option to compose a message to the mailing
list.
Regards,
Karsten
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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote:
This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken,
recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state.
One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a
simple google search.
But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get 7 different replies telling
the whole list, rather than the one person, how to find out what the acronym
means.
Andrea, I'm sorry if you felt flogged by folks wanting the old modus
operandi in place; you were right in the first place to have fixed the
'reply to'.

From my point of view the list behaviour you're talking about is broken. 
Why? Because this is a _list_, where people discuss different topics. It's 
not for private conversation; that would easily be solved by having a 
webpage with members mail address so that you could email them in private. 
Yes, the "correct" (acc. to my view) behaviour does mean some redundancy 
but that is usually for "trivial" questions, like the one above. People 
use this list for getting answers to their gentoo-related questions. 
Mailing people in private means that other people on the list with similar 
problems might miss the solution. Also all mail is archived and before one 
sends an email about a problem one should check the archives first; if one 
sends the answer to people in private the solution will not be stored in 
the archives... Just my x.xx .

Best regards
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RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dennis Taylor
Go ahead, if you like preaching to the choir. :-) In the land
of Perfect, there would be no Windoze, but I don't live in
perfect.

I said long ago that Norton Anti-virus is not very effective
because it does not detect windows as a virus. :-(

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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dennis Taylor wrote:

> (whether I like it or not, no MS flames please)

Why shouldn't we flame the easiest virii target on the planet? ;-)

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RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dennis Taylor wrote:

> (whether I like it or not, no MS flames please)

Why shouldn't we flame the easiest virii target on the planet? ;-)

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RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dennis Taylor wrote:

> Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
> out of circulation for a few years could find out what things
> like MUA mean?

GOGLE.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Willie Wong
Not a direct response to Chris's post, but...

  If you really dislike getting duplicates AND believe that all mail
  should be directed and the list rather than to you personally, there
  is NOTHING to stop you from adding the Reply-To header yourself. =)

I have a hook in mutt that does just that for some of the mailing
lists I am on. 

Best, 

W

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:20:39PM -0500, Christopher Fisk wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
> 
> >Don't forget also changing CC: for the list to To: and the fact that 
> >anyone who doesn't feel like removing those additional entries will double 
> >my incoming mail for any thread I have responded to (because I'm in the CC 
> >so I get it personally, and I get it from the list).
> 
> I agree, in fact, I will probably end up replying to the wrong person on 
> some threads, which can become annoying.  But that said, if you have 
> access to procmail you can use the following recipe to keep from getting 
> duplicate messages:
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Christopher Fisk wrote:
I agree, in fact, I will probably end up replying to the wrong person on some 
threads, which can become annoying.  But that said, if you have access to 
procmail you can use the following recipe to keep from getting duplicate 
messages:


:0 Wh: msgid.lock
$FORMAIL -D 8192 .msgid.cache

It keeps a list of all message id's sent to you and deletes duplicates. Great 
for instances such as this.  (it's been useful for me because of all the lists 
I am on)
Also, if you have procmail, you can mung your own reply-to into lists that 
don't use it.

http://www.wecs.com/replytorc.htm
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RE: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
> Yes, but the point of the list is to tell the list, not that one person
> alone. Had all 7 replies been to the OP, then no one else who wanted the
> answer, now or in the future, would know what the answer was.

The broken 'reply to' means that you don't have to think about where your
replies go, a shortcut I'm sure many folks like but is not a good thing
IMHO.

A working 'reply to' means that each responder must consider whether the
information they're returning is something the list needs to know or if it's
specific for the OP.

Had all seven replied to the OP does not mean the answer would have lost; as
many have pointed out a simple google search would have delivered the same
information.



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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Mike Noble wrote:
Holly is so correct here,  all replies should go back to the list.  If
you want to make a reply to the specific person, you know that you want
to change the behavior and you make a conscious effort to change the
the address to which the message is being sent.
I understand what you're saying and agree... mostly.  Most e-mail 
clients (i.e. Thunderbird, Eudora, opera, and mutt to name a few) are 
almost a usability nightmare.  They don't provide sufficient control 
over fundamental things such as reply addresses.

Simply taking the reply problem alone, they are a series of well-known 
patterns for reply that are not supported in most clients.  The ability 
to edit the recipient list is filled with opportunities for the user to 
screw up and not recover.

so instead of complaining, I wish folks would just fix their favorite 
client.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
Don't forget also changing CC: for the list to To: and the fact that anyone 
who doesn't feel like removing those additional entries will double my 
incoming mail for any thread I have responded to (because I'm in the CC so I 
get it personally, and I get it from the list).
I agree, in fact, I will probably end up replying to the wrong person on 
some threads, which can become annoying.  But that said, if you have 
access to procmail you can use the following recipe to keep from getting 
duplicate messages:


:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 8192 .msgid.cache
It keeps a list of all message id's sent to you and deletes duplicates. 
Great for instances such as this.  (it's been useful for me because of all 
the lists I am on)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:31 pm, Mike Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> The best thing that the gentoo server could do would be that every mail
> that comes into the server re-writes the Reply-To  so that it always
> sends mail back to the list.

No, that's not the best thing.  It break emails that use the reply-to 
header for it's original (and standards-compliant) behavior.  It may be 
easy, but that doesn't make it right.

Please read, if you haven't already, the document Andrea linked.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 11:49 am, Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> I'm sick and tired of witnessing how difficult it is to reasonably
> change a few headers in this mailing lists. While I acknolewdge the fact
> that it's best to warn users before doing something like this I also
> find unmanageable and useless any form of 'voting' for this kind of
> issues. Stripping the Reply-To looked and still looks like a "sensible"
> choice and easily manageable with a decent MUA and some basic
> configrations skills. But apparently my presumptions of considering this
> an "easy" change was mistaken and probably leaving the old setup is the
> best choice since I have no time to discuss this and tell people how to
> configure their MUA.

I agree with you on all counts.  While munging reply-to *is* broken, I 
think you did the right thing.  Hopefully, we will be able to move to the 
correct use of reply-to at some point in the future.

For all those that think munging the reply-to is correct, please read the 
document Andrea linked.

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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Noble
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Holly Bostick wrote:
|
| Yes, but the point of the list is to tell the list, not that one person
| alone. Had all 7 replies been to the OP, then no one else who wanted the
| answer, now or in the future, would know what the answer was.
|
| In which case, what is the purpose of having a public list at all?
|
| Or should we coordinate our replies so that only one answer appears?
|
| Or are you saying that OT questions should not be answered on the list,
| but privately, in which case somebody has to publish some rules for what
| precisely constitutes OT on a very general list such as this.
|
| By such rules, your own post would be OT, so I guess I should have
| responded privately, or you should have just emailed Andrea privately in
| the first place.
|
| I really must be missing something here.
|
| Holly
|
Holly is so correct here,  all replies should go back to the list.  If
you want to make a reply to the specific person, you know that you want
to change the behavior and you make a conscious effort to change the
the address to which the message is being sent.
I know that today I sent two messages back to the people who originally
posted when I really wanted it to go back to the list.  Yes I was not
thinking and just did a reply (which should have gone to the list).
Mike
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Re: A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger wrote:
This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken,
recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state.
One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a
simple google search.
But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get 7 different replies telling
the whole list, rather than the one person, how to find out what the acronym
means.
Yes, but the point of the list is to tell the list, not that one person 
alone. Had all 7 replies been to the OP, then no one else who wanted the 
answer, now or in the future, would know what the answer was.

In which case, what is the purpose of having a public list at all?
Or should we coordinate our replies so that only one answer appears?
Or are you saying that OT questions should not be answered on the list, 
but privately, in which case somebody has to publish some rules for what 
precisely constitutes OT on a very general list such as this.

By such rules, your own post would be OT, so I guess I should have 
responded privately, or you should have just emailed Andrea privately in 
the first place.

I really must be missing something here.
Holly

Andrea, I'm sorry if you felt flogged by folks wanting the old modus
operandi in place; you were right in the first place to have fixed the
'reply to'.

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A perfect example - was RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken,
recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state.

One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a
simple google search.

But since the 'reply to' is broken again, we get 7 different replies telling
the whole list, rather than the one person, how to find out what the acronym
means.

Andrea, I'm sorry if you felt flogged by folks wanting the old modus
operandi in place; you were right in the first place to have fixed the
'reply to'.



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RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dennis Taylor
Thanks, I was unaware of that particular resource.

I use (whether I like it or not, no MS flames please) Outlook 
to read email, so I will just have to create a short cut.

Dennis


-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question
stimulated by this thread


Dennis Taylor wrote:
> Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
> out of circulation for a few years could find out what things 
> like MUA mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember 
> from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me 
> clueless.
> 

Mail User Agent.

If you use Firefox or Thunderbird, you might consider adding the Acronym 
Finder to your search engines available in the search box; otherwise, 
the site can be found at http://www.acronymfinder.com/ and you can just 
type your unknown acronym in there.

It's pretty good, actually.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann

>
> Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that.
> Which mail client has that?

kmail. If you hit the reply button and hold it (or hit the right key to set it 
directly) you can choose from four forms of reply. Reply, Reply to the 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:28:03 -0500, Dennis Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
> out of circulation for a few years could find out what things
> like MUA mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember
> from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me
> clueless.
> 

Google is your friend ...

search : mua acronym

MUA Mail User Agent (Internet email)

regards,

Jean-Francois


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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick wrote:
Dennis Taylor wrote:
Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
out of circulation for a few years could find out what things like MUA 
mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember from years ago, 
but I have recently seen many that leave me clueless.

Mail User Agent.
If you use Firefox or Thunderbird, you might consider adding the Acronym 
Finder to your search engines available in the search box; 
This should have been 'Firefox or Mozilla', of course.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Susbauer
Sites such as http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/ or wikipedia are 
usually pretty good at showing acronym definitions.

FYI, It's Mail User Agent.
Dennis Taylor wrote:
Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
out of circulation for a few years could find out what things 
like MUA mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember 
from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me 
clueless.

-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken
Andrea Barisani wrote:

and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to
discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.

Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page 
about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo 
(mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?

That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Dennis Taylor wrote:
Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
out of circulation for a few years could find out what things 
like MUA mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember 
from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me 
clueless.

Mail User Agent.
If you use Firefox or Thunderbird, you might consider adding the Acronym 
Finder to your search engines available in the search box; otherwise, 
the site can be found at http://www.acronymfinder.com/ and you can just 
type your unknown acronym in there.

It's pretty good, actually.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:28 pm, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> acronym

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=MUA


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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Noble
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:32:23 -0800
From: Mike Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Holly Bostick wrote:
|
|
|
| Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that.
| Which mail client has that?
|
|
|>
|> Well, Thunderbird only supports "Reply" and "Reply All". If I do
|> "Reply All" I have to manually intervene and remove the sender's
|> mail-address.
|
|
| Don't forget also changing CC: for the list to To: and the fact that
| anyone who doesn't feel like removing those additional entries will
| double my incoming mail for any thread I have responded to (because I'm
| in the CC so I get it personally, and I get it from the list).
|
|> But I guess that's not a reasonable mailer
|
|
| And I guess it doesn't matter that I now have to manage duplicated mail
| traffic for no reason or choice of my own. It's getting a bit tedious
| already.
|
|>
|> Or is there a way to configure Thunderbird to do this?
|
|
| Not that I've noticed, but if you read the link, apparently this is the
| user's own problem to deal with... for some reason the author feels that
| it's perfectly all right to mass-mail the same mail to somebody by using
| Reply-All (i.e., if you're too lazy to edit your headers before sending,
| then that's your problem. Which may be true).
|
|
|>
|>> Take a look at this:
|>>
|>> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
|>
|>
|> In the 34768 messages I have read on this list, I have not once read
|> an embarrassing message about anybody's sex-life or boss :(
|
|
| I get it that munging is bad, but the alternative is not all that much
| better... if it's going to be a big PITA to post to this list, I'm not
| going to do it so much (please hold your cheers of celebration to the
| end, thank you). Naturally, it's not about "me" per se, but I'm sure I'm
| not the only one who might not shoot off a quick solution to a posted
| problem, simply because all this editing and management I must do makes
| it much more difficult to shoot off a quick anything.
|
|
| Holly
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|
I have really gotten tired of this thread about people who have no clue
about how to use a mail reader and being on lists.
The best thing that the gentoo server could do would be that every mail
that comes into the server re-writes the Reply-To  so that it always
sends mail back to the list.  This way it does not matter if you use
gmail (which always sends back to gmail).  As for the person above who
likes to Reply to all, he will just have to use Reply and never use
reply to all on a mailing list, learn how to use your mail tool.
Sorry for the rant.
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RE: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Dennis Taylor
Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been
out of circulation for a few years could find out what things 
like MUA mean?  Many of them I can guess, and some I remember 
from years ago, but I have recently seen many that leave me 
clueless.

-Original Message-
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken


Andrea Barisani wrote:

> and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to
> discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.
> 

Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page 
about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo 
(mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?

That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:52:08 +, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:21, John Myers wrote:
> > > Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that.
> > > Which mail client has that?
> >
> > KMail does. If you press 'L' on a list message, it does reply-to-list.
> 
> KMail also seems to get the reply to address right anyway.
> (I don't have anything setup to tell it gentoo-user is in this folder, except
> a list-id filter to put messages here)
> 

There are a few things to be learned from this (and several other)
thread(s) whcih have been quite animated, to say the least. These
"truths" seem obvious to me, but not so obvious to those who maintain
the gentoo lists and others who have jumped into the fray.

1. It's NEVER (yes I'm shouting) a good idea to change existing list
behavior without notifying the user base and (apparently) without
testing the changes in a limited environment. The result of doing this
blindly is almost always a lot of flailing around instead of an
orderly process. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" also comes to mind.

2. Advance notification of changes (and not just a "we're making some
changes," "you get to figure out what they are") is always a very good
idea (tm).

3. It seems totally impossible to root out the attitude "Gentoo is for
gurus/admins who know every trick in the book, and the rest of you
Lusers can just lump it." Unfortunately, not every subscriber to the
list is a master of the email headers, the ways of manipulating these
headers, and the myriad ways that various email clients handle the
headers. Some Lusers just want to read their mail and to be able to
reply to the list without a lot of headaches. I don't find suggestions
that the Lusers should just go find another list to be very helpful.
 
Sigh.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread James Hiscock
> That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.

...or - at the very least - we'd have a quick way to answer folks with
questions about this sort of thing... ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrea Barisani wrote:
and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to
discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.
Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page 
about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo 
(mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)?

That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:21, John Myers wrote:
> > Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that.
> > Which mail client has that?
>
> KMail does. If you press 'L' on a list message, it does reply-to-list.

KMail also seems to get the reply to address right anyway.
(I don't have anything setup to tell it gentoo-user is in this folder, except 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:00:40PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> >Well, Thunderbird only supports "Reply" and "Reply All". If I do "Reply 
> >All" I have to manually intervene and remove the sender's mail-address. 
> 
> Don't forget also changing CC: for the list to To: and the fact that 
> anyone who doesn't feel like removing those additional entries will 
> double my incoming mail for any thread I have responded to (because I'm 
> in the CC so I get it personally, and I get it from the list).
> 
> >But I guess that's not a reasonable mailer
> 
> And I guess it doesn't matter that I now have to manage duplicated mail 
> traffic for no reason or choice of my own. It's getting a bit tedious 
> already.
> 
> >
> >Or is there a way to configure Thunderbird to do this?
> 
> Not that I've noticed, but if you read the link, apparently this is the 
> user's own problem to deal with... for some reason the author feels that 
> it's perfectly all right to mass-mail the same mail to somebody by using 
> Reply-All (i.e., if you're too lazy to edit your headers before sending, 
> then that's your problem. Which may be true).
> 
> 
> >
> >>Take a look at this:
> >>
> >>http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >
> >In the 34768 messages I have read on this list, I have not once read an 
> >embarrassing message about anybody's sex-life or boss :(
> 
> I get it that munging is bad, but the alternative is not all that much 
> better... if it's going to be a big PITA to post to this list, I'm not 
> going to do it so much (please hold your cheers of celebration to the 
> end, thank you). Naturally, it's not about "me" per se, but I'm sure I'm 
> not the only one who might not shoot off a quick solution to a posted 
> problem, simply because all this editing and management I must do makes 
> it much more difficult to shoot off a quick anything.

I'm sick and tired of witnessing how difficult it is to reasonably change a
few headers in this mailing lists. While I acknolewdge the fact that it's
best to warn users before doing something like this I also find unmanageable
and useless any form of 'voting' for this kind of issues. Stripping the
Reply-To looked and still looks like a "sensible" choice and easily
manageable with a decent MUA and some basic configrations skills. But
apparently my presumptions of considering this an "easy" change was mistaken
and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to
discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.

Reply-To has just been restored.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09:00, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that.
> Which mail client has that?
KMail does. If you press 'L' on a list message, it does reply-to-list.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Arnstein Oseland wrote:
Andrea Barisani wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote:
Hi!
Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the 
list... is that an intentional change?

I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead.
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The Reply-To header is useless since all MUA supports the "reply to
list/all/sender" functions and usually reply-to should be set by the 
person who's sending the message.

Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that. 
Which mail client has that?


Well, Thunderbird only supports "Reply" and "Reply All". If I do "Reply 
All" I have to manually intervene and remove the sender's mail-address. 
Don't forget also changing CC: for the list to To: and the fact that 
anyone who doesn't feel like removing those additional entries will 
double my incoming mail for any thread I have responded to (because I'm 
in the CC so I get it personally, and I get it from the list).

But I guess that's not a reasonable mailer
And I guess it doesn't matter that I now have to manage duplicated mail 
traffic for no reason or choice of my own. It's getting a bit tedious 
already.

Or is there a way to configure Thunderbird to do this?
Not that I've noticed, but if you read the link, apparently this is the 
user's own problem to deal with... for some reason the author feels that 
it's perfectly all right to mass-mail the same mail to somebody by using 
Reply-All (i.e., if you're too lazy to edit your headers before sending, 
then that's your problem. Which may be true).



Take a look at this:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
In the 34768 messages I have read on this list, I have not once read an 
embarrassing message about anybody's sex-life or boss :(
I get it that munging is bad, but the alternative is not all that much 
better... if it's going to be a big PITA to post to this list, I'm not 
going to do it so much (please hold your cheers of celebration to the 
end, thank you). Naturally, it's not about "me" per se, but I'm sure I'm 
not the only one who might not shoot off a quick solution to a posted 
problem, simply because all this editing and management I must do makes 
it much more difficult to shoot off a quick anything.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Arnstein Oseland
Andrea Barisani wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote:
Hi!
Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the 
list... is that an intentional change?

I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead.
/Andreas
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The Reply-To header is useless since all MUA supports the "reply to
list/all/sender" functions and usually reply-to should be set by the 
person who's sending the message.
Well, Thunderbird only supports "Reply" and "Reply All". If I do "Reply 
All" I have to manually intervene and remove the sender's mail-address. 
But I guess that's not a reasonable mailer

Or is there a way to configure Thunderbird to do this?
Take a look at this:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
In the 34768 messages I have read on this list, I have not once read an 
embarrassing message about anybody's sex-life or boss :(

Best regards,
Arnstein
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:44:12PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> 
> It's a simple question: "The list behaviour has changed; is it going to 
> change back, or not?"

It's not going to change back unless big problems related to this are 
detected/reported.

This will also be set on all other gentoo ml when the migration to the new
server will be completed. We are still in the middle of the migration but a
detailed email with all the changes will be posted soon.

Bye

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrea Barisani wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote:
Hi!
Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the 
list... is that an intentional change?

I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead.
/Andreas
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The Reply-To header is useless since all MUA supports the "reply to
list/all/sender" functions and usually reply-to should be set by the 
person who's sending the message.

Take a look at this:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Cheers
Oh blessed gods, let's not start this again.
It's a simple question: "The list behaviour has changed; is it going to 
change back, or not?"

Does anyone know the answer? I don't want to hear why one behaviour is 
better than the other, I just want to know what the behaviour is going 
to be.

Thank you.
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the 
> list... is that an intentional change?
> 
> I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead.
> 
> /Andreas
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>

The Reply-To header is useless since all MUA supports the "reply to
list/all/sender" functions and usually reply-to should be set by the 
person who's sending the message.

Take a look at this:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Cheers

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[gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Hi!
Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the 
list... is that an intentional change?

I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead.
/Andreas
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