Re: reply-to munging

[Gabriel]

Jon Dowland wrote: 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>. 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... 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. -- Cheers -- Gabriel Parrondo Linux User #404138 "In theory there's no difference between the theory and the practice. In the practice There is."