On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 17:06 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > In other words, I don't think blaming choice of mail client or mail user > agent helps anything, especially since in many cases work conditions may > dictate one's choice of client or MUA.
I don't blame either. I blame the list manager, the software, not the person. When I get a message from a list, I expect the 'From:' to be the list, not the original author. I expect the 'To:' to be me. How they managed to bugger things up so I get mail not sent to my email address, I don't have a clue; but I would stop them if I could. A mailing list, unlike a person, is a machine. It is a piece of software and it does not deserve the same courtesies that a real person does. A mailing list is a semi-public forum (or a semi-private forum, depending on the size of your glass). As such, I expect it to tell the truth; it forwarded the message from somebody else and included their email address, in case I want to contact them myself (or it didn't include their address if they want to maintain privacy). But when I hit 'Reply', I expect the reply to go back to the one who sent it, that would the the mailing list software. If I want to contact the originator, I would expect to do some additional work to find out who he/she is. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
