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Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)



On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:23PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:18:40AM -0500, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > > if this is the case the solution is fixing broken mailers, many of
> > > them are Free software so why have patches to support M-F-To not been
> > > made?
> > 
> > I'd like to see someone convince that M-F-To fix Pine.  But I doubt you'll
> > have an easy time getting Crispin to apply a patch.  He won't even implement 
> > maildir, for christ sake, and patches for that have been around for over 2
> > years now.
> 
> pine is a lost cause anyway.  i was thinking of GNUs which seems to be
> the other big offender of ignorage of M-F-To.  (i am not sure if it
> respects Mail-Copies-To: never i just started adding that.)  

Actually, I'm pretty sure that Gnus respects M-F-To.  The biggest offenders
in that arena seem to be PINE and the GUI MUA's.

> btw is it Mail-Copies-To: never or Mail-Copies-To: nobody ?  i have
> seen both which is correct?  (assuming any MUA actually pays any
> attention to this header anyway)

Don't know, I don't use it.

--Adam



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