On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:24:12PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > 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.
Please refrain from sending me two copies of an email. If it goes to the list, I'll get it. There's no need to include my private email address if you're also sending it to the list. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." - MacUser, November 1990 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
