Hei hei, On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:51:54AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > But dumbing things down also causes problems. People should learn > some social graces. Email is one of the basic forms of communication > in our new electronic world. I think this facade does them no favors.
This would mean to convince them willingly put time in understanding mailing lists, choose a sophisticated MUA with reply to list feature or check and probably change To/Cc in each and every mail. Good luck with this. I stay with accepting there are dumb people (no offense) and am happy if they use e-mail at all. > 1. I will get a copy without the mailing list List-* headers. > + list-reply own't work reliably. > + Mail filing won't work reliably. Improve your filing, this is not impossible. > 2. If my site rejects their direct reply, such as it coming from a > dynamic IP address range, then I won't ever get either message. > The mailing list has no way to know that I did not get a direct reply. > The mailing list may have whitelisted them however. I would > normally receive all mailing list messages because I will have > whitelisted the mailing list. Dumb users will probably use some big mail provider without dynamic IP addresses. > 3. Most of them will simply have done a private reply anyway and won't > have included the mailing list. Sure? I wouldn't bet. > I dream of a world where MUAs did The Right Thing. Like mutt! :-) As long as we have M$ around and this new app developers ignoring RFCs and standards, this will be a long lasting dream. Greets Alex -- »With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.« (Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie) *** GnuPG-FP: 02C8 A590 7FE5 CA5F 3601 D1D5 8FBA 7744 CC87 10D0 ***
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