On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 07:22:38 -0400 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Thursday, 07 July 2005, at 09:04:11 (+0200), > Christoph Gysin wrote: > > > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > > > This is stupid. > > No it isn't. Just because you don't understand it or agree with it > doesn't make it stupid. In fact, the guy is right. Unfortunately, > raster is also right -- there are far too many ignorant, lazy, and/or > careless users who cannot take the 2 seconds required to check the > destination for the reply they're composing. > > This discussion has reached near-religious status, and it will never > ever be settled. Fortunately my e-mail client is intelligent enough > to reasonably cope with both settings. When I hit reply, it asks > whether or not to honor the reply-to header. Or I can hit group-reply > or list-reply to enforce the alternate behavior. > > So, to those of you complaining about the old behavior without the > reply-to header pointing to the list, I have this to say: Get a > reasonable mail client and learn to use it properly. > > And to those of you complaining about the new behavior with the > reply-to header pointing to the list, I have this to say: Get a > reasonable mail client and learn to use it properly. aye. it is much of a muchness at the end of the day - but imho setting a reply-to to go to the list covers "oversight" by users (or lazy users or stupid users) unfortunately at the expense of some extra work for other users *IF* they do not want to reply to the list. imho (and it is JUST an opinion) the majorty - if not VAST majority of mails should go back to the list anyway - and just basing it on the fact e-devel has been happy for years, i'd say consistency is good - whichever side of the religious fence you end up on :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
