Brian Kimball wrote:
Marc Wilson wrote:On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:05:21PM +1000, charlie wrote:Am new here, but think that reply to list is standard on all Linux learning lists?You'd be wrong. Dead wrong.Amen brother. For all you people who are dead wrong and in denial about it, read this: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.htmlAnd then _please_ realize that you are wasting your breath--the debian list administrators are waaayyy too smart to listen to your ignorant pleas. Fix your MUA or get a new one instead of arguing for something that will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happen.Brian
From said document: <quote> Freedom of ChoiceSome administrators justify Reply-To munging by saying, "All responses should go directly to the list anyway." This is arrogant. You should allow /me/ to decide exactly how I wish to respond to a message.
</quote>Yet you would take away from us the right to choose how we want to reply? "We're right so you should just suck it up and add x key-strokes or mouse clicks to do what should be a single-click operation"?
As I replied to the other poster, Reply-To-All works both ways. If the Reply-To header is set to list you get To: <list> CC: <OP> - exactly the reverse of what happens on a Debian list.
I find your side's evangelical zeal a little grating. If you have a case, make it without calling those who disagree with you "brain-dead" and "in denial". I thought there were standards of behaviour on this list. Apparently, they only apply to those who disagree with you.
And if the list admins are so smart, how come we have all the spam on these lists? 90% of the spam I get is from the Debian lists...
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