At 10/31/00 01:02 AM , Brett Randall wrote:
> > That's nice, but note also:
> > http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
>
>Well, I guess it comes down to personal preference. In my time, I've
>seen /many/ personal e-mails end up on mailing lists, and I've had it
>happen myself a few times.
I have as well, but still prefer the Reply-To: field to be set. It's a
default that matches the behavior I most often desire, namely, sending a
single response to the list alone.
>HOWEVER, in saying that, I would really like to see more MUA's with Reply
>(using Reply-To defaulting to From), Reply-To-All and Reply-To-List (reply
>to the mailing list field)...
I would also love to see that; most, IME, have simply Reply (to From:) and
Reply-to-All, which is unsatisfactory. On this list, for example, I can
either Reply and then edit the To: field to the list address instead of the
individual address, or Reply-to-All and then trim out all extraneous
addresses from the To: and possibly Cc: fields.
So, the widespread acceptance of mailers with that third option would
greatly brighten my day, and would make the whole "to munge or not to
munge" debate fairly moot.
Until then, though, I don't think that just posting the URL of the Munging
Considered Harmful page is a sufficient response to someone asking about
the best way to set up a system to munge headers. If we've established that
the decision to munge headers is a personal one, and that there are good
reasons to do it, then a response that basically says "Here's why you
shouldn't do that" is not a sufficient answer -- in fact, it's completely
un-useful.
BTW, I'm not trying to pick on you; I'm just picking on your answer, a bit.
<grin> I've seen a lot of anti-munging sentiment on this list, and as
someone who was initially swayed by Chip Rosenthal's arguments -- until I
started actually running some mailing lists! -- I've decided to try to
represent the other side a bit. Hope you don't mind.
>"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like
>Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
>- Linus Torvalds
Too many of Linus' quotes just rock.
--Kai MacTane
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