Re: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?
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On 03/30/07 16:33, Seth Goodman wrote:
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote on Friday, March 30, 2007 3:31 PM -0500:
>
>> The whole fact that "majority" of other mailing lists and their users
>> does not know about this does not mean it's useless.
>
> You mean it _could_ be useful if most others went along, which they
> haven't. There are a lot of things about normal SMTP practice that
> violate recent RFC's and I personally don't like. For something
> that doesn't affect mail transport, but is a matter of how MUA's
> interpret trace headers, most people feel they have bigger fish to
> fry. To fix this problem, you need to convince not only the makers
> of numerous MTA's to change, but the maintainers of mailing list
> packages and a large number of mailing list administrators.
>
> That's a large enough hurdle that I think it safe to say the horse
> has left the barn on this one a long time ago. Continuing to insist
> that things _should_ have been different, long past the point where
> that is feasible, only makes us look foolish. In that, we have been
> successful.
By very similar reasoning, we should all dump Linux and go with the
OS that has 95% usage.
>
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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