On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Mark Gelinas wrote:
> 4) The 'Reply-to:' field munging
>
> I have read the documents
> http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> as well as the group discussions.
>
> For the record, there were three votes in favor of keeping it as
> is: Ken Coar, Chuck MacKinnon, and myself (not posted, but I was
> the one that turned the feature on, believing it to be useful).
> I would not have thought so many people felt it necessary to
> take discussions offlist, or the feature would have stayed off.
Mark,
As my final comment on this topic, I'd like to point out that I don't
think this is quite the same issue on other kinds of mailing lists. I
believe the issue stems from the fact that a large number of us know
eachother personally, which doesn't often happen on other kinds of lists.
This causes many of us to have side comments that are completely
unrelated to the topic and the group, and that, ultimately, is the source
of the problem.
> As it is, I will accede to popular demand. For the benefit of those
> who have not yet weighed in and want to, I will accept votes by
> *private* mail until noon tomorrow. Majority rules. Current
> majority, by 11 to 3, wants the munging turned off.
Thanks! Did you actually count the votes? I said there were ten in one
message, but that was just a guess; and since then 3 additional people
chimed in with a 'VOTE: REPLY-SENDER' message. If the archives are
working, I'd be happy to go back and count the votes.
--
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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