Gabriel wrote:
Jon Dowland wrote:OK, I feel really embarrassed for my ignorance... I didn't even knew what munging means (now I know it :-P). And thanks for the link. But I still thinking that munging is a good idea...On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add 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 applied by this list) is available at <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.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 as they say in the link provided by Felix Miata, replying to a private makes thing harder when you search on the archives of the list.
Frankly, I don't like to use that term. Historically, to "munge"
has always been used as a derogatory term. Since I consider
supplying a Reply-to: which actually specifies the originator
of the message, i.e. the list, not to be destructive, I prefer
not to use term in this context.
Mike
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