RE: Broken MUA interactions

2007-07-09 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Ben Finney wrote: > If your MUA is not using the information, provided in every message > from the mailing list, to do what you want, don't ask mailing list > admmministrators to accomodate your broken MUA. There would be nothing wrong with an MUA for example, having a "reply" button where the us

Re: Broken MUA interactions

2007-07-09 Thread Ben Finney
"Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/9/07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, it's not correct to modify Reply-To. Some reasons: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > None of those are reasons, they're opinions and weary old excuses. They're old, bu

Re: Broken MUA interactions

2007-07-09 Thread Ben Finney
"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, it's not correct to modify Reply-To. Some reasons: > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Not to mention that, since the publication of that document, it's now even more clearly incorrect to munge 'reply-to' fields; the standards now

Re: Broken MUA interactions (was: Restarting a Python Application)

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Mellon
On 7/9/07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:48:39 -0300, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > It's working as instructed, but that doesn't mean that it's doing the > > best thing. It's common practice for mailing lists to set the reply-to > > to th

Re: Broken MUA interactions (was: Restarting a Python Application)

2007-07-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:48:39 -0300, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > It's working as instructed, but that doesn't mean that it's doing the > best thing. It's common practice for mailing lists to set the reply-to > to the list itself, because that's the common case, and because it's >

Re: Broken MUA interactions (was: Restarting a Python Application)

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Mellon
On 7/8/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Peter Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Imagine if you wrote applications where the default behavior did not > > do what was needed 99% of the time: how long do you think you'd be > > in business? > > You seem to be complaining about the f

Broken MUA interactions (was: Restarting a Python Application)

2007-07-07 Thread Ben Finney
"Peter Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Imagine if you wrote applications where the default behavior did not > do what was needed 99% of the time: how long do you think you'd be > in business? You seem to be complaining about the functionality of your mail user agent (MUA) software. The mail