gnupic: Re: [gnupic] Reply-to mangling
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] Reply-to mangling
From:
Ian Jackson ####@####.####
Date:
20 Jul 2005 14:37:51 +0100
Message-Id: <17118.21421.17361.523658@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Alex Holden writes ("Re: [gnupic] Reply-to mangling"):
> Before this turns into a flame war, I've listened to both sides (both
> the people who replied to the list and those who contacted me
> privately), and the "Yes" vote significantly outnumbers the "No" vote
> so I've decided to turn reply-to mangling on. Personally I still
> think it's an ugly workaround for something that ought to be an email
> client feature, but I do recognise that I'm in the minority in
> feeling that way.
You should change it back. Voting by counting responses like that is
a terrible way to decide because clueless people are prefentially
willing to inundate both people and lists with content-free messages.
Also, you are punishing the people with good software to help the
people with bad software. As one of the people with good software I
object most strongly !
> > But that was another list, not this. For that matter, just what
> > sort of list *was* that? [...]
It's happened at least twice on ukcrypto to my knowledge. Because I
hang around on mainly technical lists I tend not to be exposed too
much to the Reply-To munging braindamage (which is more prevalent in
lists full of the computer-ignorant).
Ian.
