On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:51 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > It could easily be argued that the listserve becomes the author when it sends > out the mail. It is not just a forwarding service, but is taking original > content, perhaps changing formatting, stripping out attachments, making a > digest, etc and then making a new post. It may pass itself as the new sender > or may pass the original sender as the sender, but in the context of the RFC > you quoted, the list software could easily be the "author" of the message. > The RFC you quoted is not speaking of posts to mail lists, frankly. That is > out of the realm of what it is trying to say.
The part that's funny to me is that it seems everyone is resorting to trying to quote and interpret RFC's and headers and whatnot to determine who is "right" in this situation. If anyone actually gave a damn about practical use cases, they would approach it as if they were assessing a usability issue with a program. If I didn't know or give a damn about how or why email does or doesn't work, if I just wanted it to work, here's what I'd know. I hit reply, and my message doesn't go to the people I want it to go to. If I hit reply-all, it does go to a bunch of people, including the one "list" I wanted it to go to. For some reason, reply-all also sends multiple copies to some people. To an end user who doesn't give a damn, that tells me it's broken. Fix it. That, in simple terms without resorting to an internet competition to find out who's ego is the least bruised, sums it up from a usability standpoint. This is a mailing list. It shouldn't be an exercise in puzzle-solving skills just to send a @#$% SMTP message to a group of tech-heads. It's quite obvious that no matter how much yellow water is sprayed in this argument the listserve people in charge don't give a rat's @#% whether the list works easily or not. And it's their prerogative if they want to turn this into some exercise in additional frustration in order to use it. It's not a democracy, and quite frankly it's obvious they don't care, so all the arguing is for nothing. You might as well stop trying to participate in the community here if it's a PITA and either start another listserve or go to another community like in the StackExchange and see if that works better for your workflow. It's pretty obvious nothing here will change._______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
