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Paul Gearon
pag at tucanatech.com
Thu May 27 22:47:27 EDT 2004
Bradley Marshall wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:13:58PM +1000, Paul Gearon wrote:
> On the other hand, most of the lists I'm on, which are security / sysadmin
> related, don't use Reply-To.
OK, I'll confess surprise. Just looking at the top of my pile, it's certainly
not the case for:
linuxcprogramming at lists.linux.org.au
tuxcpprogramming at lists.linux.org.au
kernelnewbies at nl.linux.org
linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org (haven't been here for a little while...
maybe it changed)
www-rdf-interest at w3.org
mythtv-users at mythtv.org
plus several internal lists which you set up...
That said, I did notice it the other way for 2 types of lists:
1. Announcement lists, where people don't normally respond
2. AUUG lists (ie. lots of sysadmins!). The thing that struck me about these
lists is that there seemed to be a LOT of offline discussions!
>>Rob's procmail rules provide a "fixup" for headers. For me, this implies
>>that they were broken in the first place.
>
> But it's only needed for some mail clients, not all. Mutt works fine with
> the current setup. Does this mean that the mail client you're using is
> broken?
Does your email client have IMAP support, and a bayesian spam filter? If not,
then would you consider it broken?
It's great that you and others have mail clients that support this feature. A
lot of peoples' clients don't. The number of people whose clients don't would
seem to imply that this is not a "common" feature to most mail clients. So
no, not having this feature might be annoying (for use with these lists), but
hardly broken.
--
Regards,
Paul Gearon
Software Engineer Telephone: +61 7 3876 2188
Tucana Technologies Fax: +61 7 3876 4899
http://www.tucanatech.com
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