[H-GEN] software runs the world
Greg Black
gjb at gbch.net
Sun Mar 20 02:31:26 EST 2005
On 2005-03-20, Russell Stuart wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 00:05, Greg Black wrote:
> Unlike
> you I am not as precise in my use of the language as I should
> be.
If you can't construct your messages to say what you mean, you
can't really complain if I somehow don't manage to read your
mind. I'm going to continue to assume that you mean what you
say.
> This is a fine solution where procmail is an option. But for
> a lot of people procmail isn't an option - as I said in my
> reply to Rob.
This is nonsense. We are HUMBUG. Home Unix Machine. We are
not Windows users or other lamers, we have our own Unix machines
at home -- therefore, the solutions that people have proposed
are indeed available. And, for those of us who are newbies to
the marvels of Unix, there is help available on these lists for
free from very knowledgeable people.
> To me it appears the best thing to do is to
> add a Reply-To in mailing list software to incoming messages,
Instead of driving everybody completely mad with this incessant
whining about something that you cannot change, why not actually
do something about it?
It is utterly trivial for you to set up a list that subscribes
to the Humbug lists and fucks around with the headers in any way
you choose. Then you can announce your list. And then all the
people who can't live without this great feature can subscribe
to your mirror instead of the Humbug lists and we can get rid of
this idiotic meta discussion here. It provides no added value
to Humbug members at all.
>>> Of course its is entirely possible you
>>> know more about Unix and programming than I do, but I have
>>> to balance that thought against the fact that you have not
>>> done it, despite programming being second nature to you.
>>
>> I said it's not worth it and it's not in my opinion. You
>> certainly need to understand this stuff better than you do if
>> you're going to try to automate it.
>
> Another wild conclusion, Greg. Again, you have no idea how
> much I know about email, smtp, or the rfc's governing those
> things.
You keep challenging me with this and I've been polite enough up
till now to avoid responding to you. Since you won't let it go,
I'll make myself unequivocally clear: I know perfectly well that
you don't know as much about these topics as you think you do.
The content of your messages and some of the artifacts in the
messages you send out make that abundantly clear to somebody who
does know this stuff. I'm not going to apologise for making
that statement and nothing is going to change my mind about it.
I do wish you'd just go and follow my advice above and set up
your own list and then we could be done with it.
Cheers, Greg
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