[Fwd: Re: [H-GEN] Open source firm releases patch for IE spoofing flaw]

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Sun Dec 28 07:42:47 EST 2003


On 2003-12-28, Sandra Milne wrote:
> Greg Black wrote:
>> On 2003-12-28, Sandra Milne wrote:

>>>ARGH! Can we pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease have reply to list back again?!?!
>>
>>Think of it as a learning experience -- it never really hurts
>>having to learn how to use our basic tools.
> 
> so every time I want to reply to the list I should type in the address 
> of the list? I hate 'reply to all' as when it's done to me I get two 
> copies of the email.

I can't imagine why anybody would ever type in an address to a
mailing list.

> I notice that the email I'm replying to has the reply to set as the list 
> email address.... I noticed because I suddenly thought "oh I'd better 
> type in the list address now that I've said I'll have to".... and there 
> it is....

It was there because I put it there for you, as I did this time;
but it's still up to people to look at addresses when they send
email.

I get email from all kinds of sources, and so I've taught myself
to look at the headers when I compose replies.  I always use my
MUA's group reply or reply to all function and then I edit out
the stuff I don't want.  With a mouse, it's utterly trivial; and
with an ordinary editor in a tty, it's still pretty trivial.

In this case, I cut out the line with your address, to spare you
the second copy; and I pasted the contents of the To header into
the Reply-To that my MUA is setup to provide for me in each
draft message.  No effort at all, so I don't mind doing it.

But my usual approach with this kind of list would be just to
setup the Reply-To as I wanted it to be and let the recipients
deal with duplicate suppression, a job trivially handled by
procmail and all the other local delivery utilities that you
might care to employ.

> If somebody has finally taken pity on those of us who are lazy or on 10 
> other lists that have it set and are thus used to it, thank you :-) [For 
> the record, I'm one of the latter]

Hopefully, the list will stay as it is.  For the record, I'm on
hundreds of lists and very few of them set the reply-to header
and I'm always pleased to see lists drop that damaging feature.

Cheers, Greg



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