Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov schrieb: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: This is wrong. It is *USEFUL*! http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.html and when I click Reply (Reply to all option does not exist for Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar schrieb: Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov schrieb: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: This is wrong. It is *USEFUL*! http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml Alexander Skwar -- like: When being alive at

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. Here, here. Not everyone has a choice of MUA all the time. I'm all for leaving it as it is, 99% of the time, replies to the list's

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. Here, here. Not everyone has a choice of MUA all the time.

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-08-01 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:21:03AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:00:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:23:18 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly.

[gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . For example, in my gmail account I see something like this in the (prettified) header of each message from Gentoo's mailing lists: From: Marco Fabbri

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Rout
It has been discussed before and IMHO should not change. Please if you want to discuss go somewhere else like IRC. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:10:48 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists:

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Penguin Lover Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov squawked: Who is in charge of the mailing lists and would be the best person to suggest this to? Should I send this to a different gentoo-* list? Big discussion over this about 18 months ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/31/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . That is a matter of opinion. I find the Reply-To munging to be very helpful. Who is

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Big discussion over this about 18 months ago. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/120320/focus=120320 Thanks a lot. I didn't find the search functions on the archives sites very helpful in finding an old thread about this. The change was made as you suggested, without

Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists

2006-07-31 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: My preferred MUA (mutt) is smart enough and configurable enough to treat mailing lists properly. Here, here. -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpa1ta5KFB8F.pgp Description: PGP signature