On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:25:09PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: > On 7/17/07, Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ti, 2007-07-17 kello 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal kirjoitti: > >> p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the > >> respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Hate gmail and complain to them all you want, please don't imply the > >list should be broken because of that. > > > >I shan't continue on the subject, but thought it necessary to note the > >opposing opinion's presence in this context. > > it's nothing to do with gmail. the reply-to field has not been set on > the openmoko mail server, so replies to messages default to the > sender. this is fine in most cases, but not on mailing lists
Hi Robin Actually, it is perfectly fine on mailing lists, and in fact it's exactly the way it's supposed to be. This is an old debate, and, like Mikko, I don't want to waste list cycles rehashing it, but Chip Rosenthal's early paper (http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html) lays out the issues. There have been some rebuttals over the years, but see http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful Best Regards Kent Crispin Technical Systems Manager ICANN _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
