Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Felix Miata wrote: > Maybe people should be allowed to choose a MUA based on whether its > entire feature set best meets their overall needs. Maybe people who choose to use an MUA which is deficient in one area or another should complain to the authors of the MUA about said deficiencies instea

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-22 Thread Felix Miata
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-18 07:33:53, schrieb Felix Miata: > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > > list. You can't have a public discussion when people make their replies > > private. > Maybe you should use a RFC-Compliant MUA > which suppo

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-18 07:33:53, schrieb Felix Miata: > That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > list. You can't have a public discussion when people

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Felix Miata wrote: > The default (passive) choice to a public discussion list should always > be to the list, requiring no more thought than choosing to reply at all. > Choosing not to reply to the group should require an active choice, not > a passive choice. Private replies add nothing to the dis

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Steve Lamb wrote: >> Felix Miata wrote: > >> This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > >> list. You can't have a public discussion when people make their replies > >> private. > And it is up to the individual on how they wish to reply. Quite frankly > if s

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-12-18, Felix Miata penned: > > That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private > answers list. You can't have a public discussion when people make > th

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug filed against it for failing to do so. How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug > filed against it for failing to do so. How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly and newer clients (of

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose. > > This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa! Could be worse. You could have written: The .B sender gets to choose. -- Michael A. Marsh http:

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose. This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa! -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of soul

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: >> That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: >> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html Felix (I know, I'm replying to Mike but attribution is corerct here), this page is simply outdated. It references 822 and was wri

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
this message :-P) No, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as applied by this list) is available at <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. OK, I feel really embarrassed for my ignor

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
this message :-P) No, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as applied by this list) is available at <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. That's only one admin's op

Re: reply-to munging (Re: Shutdown w/o root password.)

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
o, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as applied by this list) is available at <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. Every list has its hot buttons which can spawn flame wars. This

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-18 Thread Gabriel
e :-P) No, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as applied by this list) is available at . OK, I feel really embarrassed for my ignorance... I didn't even knew what munging means (no

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
dd a reply-to field on the messages we send > > > to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this message :-P) > > > No, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the > > subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as >

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-18 Thread Felix Miata
this with this message :-P) > No, we shouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the > subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as > applied by this list) is available at > <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. That's

reply-to munging (Re: Shutdown w/o root password.)

2005-12-18 Thread Jon Dowland
ouldn't :) See archives for various long arguments on the subject of Reply-To: munging. The rationale behind not doing so (as applied by this list) is available at <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Reply-To Munging - Please, Not Again! (was Re: Top posting)

2005-06-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/11/05, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, we solved the problem of accidently sending replies to individuals > by using a "Reply-To:" in the header with the lists address. Not exactly > a "pure" solution, but it works. Did you open this can o' worms on purpose, or do you just not kno