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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:59:42 -0500
"Shawn McMahon" <smcmahon@eiv.com> wrote:

> And while I'm complaining, I have the goddamn Mail-Followup-To: header
> set, please stop sending me carbon-copies of list posts!

Personally I'd rather receive a message twice than possibly miss it
completely.

> If your mailer is too broken to do list-replies or observe headers,
> get a real mailer or please put me in your procmail filter so you
> don't see me at all and get tempted to reply.

We've been down that track on a number of other mailing lists - No
matter whether the list is set to "reply to list" or "reply to author"
there will always be some people who want the other setting.

> -- 
> "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as
> the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain
> letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers
> of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online
> community." - Roger Ebert, "The Boulder Pledge"

I like it - may I steal it?



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