on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > i hadn't read that, and it brings up a number of points I hadn't > considered, but the majority of them are along the lines of "elm has a > reply-to-list function, so this isn't a problem". however, it is a > problem in many (popular) mailers which don't have a reply-to-list > function. Further flogging a dead horse: munging reply-to means that if a user *does* explicitly set reply-to (say, so that list mail is copied to both themselves *and* the list), the list's munging of reply-to will break this request. Which addresses precisely the problem that launched this thread. The most pathological response to the reply-to debate I've experienced is LUGoD, the Linux User Group of Davis, for which merely *mentioning* the subject is a bannable offense. This is addressed in the recently added "Eminent Domain" clause (translation: censorship policy) of LUGoD's mailing list rules: http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/ Thank Peter Jay Salzman, list administrator, for that little bit of fascism. The *other* response is for users of real MUAs to set their client to ignore the reply-to header, either globally, or when responding to mailing list posts. In mutt, see the 'ignore_list_reply_to' and 'reply_to' options. This is a typical response to abused features -- those with the clue and means to defeat the feature (javascript, popups, flash, banner advertising, reply-to munging) will do so, rendering it largely impotent. Which is yet another argument against reply-to munging: abuse of a feature leads to a reduced usefulness of it in cases in which it actually *does* accomplish something helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
