Reply-To a no-go

1997-12-18 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Well, I'm tired of this discussion. I'm also tired of downloading the same messages over and over again. I'm unsubscribing from this list (actually, I already did). If anybody wishes to follow up on any topic we have touched upon, do so via e-mail. I hope the list maintainers find a solution to th

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

1997-12-16 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 16, 1997, at 11:22, Ian Jackson wrote: > Tyson Dowd: > > A couple of us discussed this (and other problems with the mailing > > list), in the thread "Duplicate messages on this list" in debian-devel > > about a week ago and eventually came to a standstill where most people > > in the di

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-10 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 9, 1997, at 15:34, Matthew R. Briggs wrote: > No, I don't think that will do it. He's talking about ntldr and boot.ini, > which NT places in the root directory of the boot drive...in his case a > 300MB FAT partition. If he reformats for ext2, the NT boot loader will > not exist anymor

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-09 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 9, 1997, at 00:59, Carl Mummert wrote: > Assuming no Sender line, or Sender = From, I beleive that the following > mapping is compliant with the standard: > > >From -> Sender (Sender is omitted if > it is the same as From, > but it's not, anymore) >

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-09 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 4, 1997, at 23:55, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; we > are just pandering to broken software (decent software, like gnus, > allows on to set mailing list parameters [look for to-address] such > that group replies go only to t

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-08 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 5, 1997, at 15:49, Tyson Dowd wrote: > On 02-Dec-1997, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >No, please don't muck with reply-to. That's evil. And if I > > hadn't lost my disk, I'd have a handy-dandy url for you. Hmmm. Try > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.ht

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-08 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 6, 1997, at 16:56, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; > > I agree. > > > The people with sad mail software and lazy fingers are > > penalizing the people with low bandwidth. Don't break

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-03 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 2, 1997, at 14:48, Mariusz Pagowski wrote: > Hello, > I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks > on NT machine from unix/linux. Rather the other way: you can see your linux volumes from NT (in the \\linuxbox\path style used by SMB). > But does samba allow me > to log

Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-03 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
me, because they wouldn't help me BEFORE I download the messages via modem. I sent a note to Greg asking him to elaborate on his points, and never got an answer. I'm posting that note here. On Nov 23, 1997, at 21:08, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Nov 2