> No, they aren't saying *you* are brain-dead.
The heading to his paragraph was:
Coddling the Brain-Dead, Penalizing the Conscientious
Sounds like he's referring to people, although later he talks about "a
brain-dead mailer can benefit from Reply-To munging" which is of course the
email-client.
>And it's not even OE that's
> brain-dead (it has "Reply" and "Reply to all" functions). These issues
I understood that the missing function was referred to here:
"Some mail clients (but unfortunately not all) also have a list reply
feature, which only replies to the list. "
It just amazes me that they *fix* something that's not broken, and that
nobody complained about.
If I wanted people to send a copy of the mail to my personal mailbox, I'd
put my email address in the message.
Ah well...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dougal Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "DynAPI-Help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: [Dynapi-Help] Re: [Dynapi-Dev] reply-to issues
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Richard Bennett wrote:
>
> [....]
> > Another quote:(http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html)
> > <quote>
> > Coddling the Brain-Dead, Penalizing the Conscientious
> > There are, unfortunately, poorly implemented mail programs that lack
> > separate reply-to-author and reply-to-group functions. A user saddled
with
> > such a brain-dead mailer can benefit from Reply-To munging. It makes it
> > easier for him or her to send responses directly to the list.
> > </quote>
> >
> > So now they're calling me "brain-dead" because I use Outlook Express?
> > So that's what it is - somebody's angry at Microsoft for some reason,
and
> > think if they configure sourceforge so it works really badly on MS
products,
> > people will change to their favorite email clients.
> > I don't think so, they're painting themselves into a corner. Reminds me
of
> > client-side Java.
> >
> > Thanks a lot Sourceforge.
>
> No, they aren't saying *you* are brain-dead. And it's not even OE that's
> brain-dead (it has "Reply" and "Reply to all" functions). These issues
> (and arguments over what is "proper" mailing-list reply-to config) were
> around long before Outlook Express existed.
>
> And for the record, my personal preference is that the mailing list
> should set up the headers so that replies automatically go back to the
> list. And that's how I set up my own mailing lists.
>
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