[H-GEN] A request to the list maintainers

[Greg Black]

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I have been told that there are plans afoot to change the
mailing list software that manages the Humbug lists and I hope
that this might be an opportunity to give some thought to a
couple of changes that I'd like to see implemented.

1. Drop the "Reply-To" header munging that is currently carried
   out.  Rather than waste space here with the arguments, I will
   refer you to this excellent article by Chip Rosenthal:

      http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

2. Drop the deferred sending of messages.  I have often found
   myself replying to a message that has already received a
   perfectly good reply -- if the original reply had been sent
   out when it was received, I'd have seen it and known that
   there was no point in adding to the noise.  I belong to
   dozens of lists and the Humbug ones are the only ones that
   have this delay.  Since removing the delay can only reduce
   total list traffic and since any box built in the last 10
   years could handle the Humbug lists standing on its head
   (assuming modern MTA software), there seems little to say for
   the delays.

Greg

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