Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Felix Miata wrote: > Maybe people should be allowed to choose a MUA based on whether its > entire feature set best meets their overall needs. Maybe people who choose to use an MUA which is deficient in one area or another should complain to the authors of the MUA about said deficiencies instea

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-22 Thread Felix Miata
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-18 07:33:53, schrieb Felix Miata: > > 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. > Maybe you should use a RFC-Compliant MUA > which suppo

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-18 07:33:53, schrieb Felix Miata: > That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > list. You can't have a public discussion when people

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Felix Miata wrote: > The default (passive) choice to a public discussion list should always > be to the list, requiring no more thought than choosing to reply at all. > Choosing not to reply to the group should require an active choice, not > a passive choice. Private replies add nothing to the dis

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Steve Lamb wrote: >> 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 it is up to the individual on how they wish to reply. Quite frankly > if s

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-12-18, Felix Miata penned: > > That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private > answers list. You can't have a public discussion when people make > th

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug filed against it for failing to do so. How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug > filed against it for failing to do so. How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly and newer clients (of

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose. > > This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa! Could be worse. You could have written: The .B sender gets to choose. -- Michael A. Marsh http:

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose. This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa! -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of soul

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: >> That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: >> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html Felix (I know, I'm replying to Mike but attribution is corerct here), this page is simply outdated. It references 822 and was wri

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel wrote: 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 messag

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Felix Miata wrote: 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

Re: reply-to munging (Re: Shutdown w/o root password.)

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
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 sh

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-18 Thread 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)

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:33:53AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > 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 s

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-18 Thread Felix Miata
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)