On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:40:38AM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
> I notice Inchoate has started putting Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in mails
> through his node.
It's been that way for at least the last four months.
> Which is not what the rest of them are doing (as far as I know), and is
> officially evil.
Yes it is evil, although I don't know about it being Officially Evil.
Pointers welcome. None of the other CDRs set Reply-to that I know.
The lne CDR strips out the Reply-to line in incoming mail
from other CDRs[1].
> The simplest thing that could be done about his [CDR] crap
The lne node strips the CDR in the Subject line out too
(and s/Re: Re:/Re:/ while I'm at it).
>, and continual
> jerking people around with his warped Choatian view of the way the world
> should work is for the other nodes to drop his node from the graph based on
> the disruption continual header games cost.
No matter what you might think of Jim's ideas and writing, he operates
his CDR node in a reasonable fashion- it's up most of the time and seems
to get mail out pretty quickly. While I and many people disagree with
setting the Reply-to to the list, and even more people disagree with
adding tags in the Subject line, these things are not uncommon on other
lists. I wish they were, but not everyone has the same ideas about how
to run a list that you and I do.
If you don't like them, there are alternate CDRs. If your favorite CDR
doesn't fix the headers, ask them to. It's not hard, and I'll provide
the script to any CDR node that asks.
> On a more positive note I invested some effort in procmail filtering and
> switched mailer, and now blissfully Inchoates stream of urls and blather go
> straight to /dev/null.
I wish everyone who doesn't like to read Jim's posts would do the same.
The posts that're nothing but arguing with Jim are just as much of
a waste of bits as (most of) Jim's posts are.
Eric
1- while writing this I realized that I ought to strip out Reply-to
only if it's set to a CDR list, not to anything else. Otherwise I'm
prohibiting legitimate uses of Reply-to. I'll fix that shortly.
