Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:37:53 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must be a bug. In Sylpheed 2.0.1-1 (GTK+ version 2.6.10), Message-Reply to-Mailing list does what it's supposed to do: put only debian-user@lists.debian.org in To:, and nothing in Cc:. I figured as much, I guess it's

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Seth Goodman wrote: Referencing 822 for much of anything these days is not very useful, unless if you're interested in email history. Which is something you need to know when blatently getting 822 and 2822 backwards when it comes to reply-to. As I pointed out in a previous post,

RE: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-26 Thread Seth Goodman
From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 2:50 AM Seth Goodman wrote: Referencing 822 for much of anything these days is not very useful, unless if you're interested in email history. Which is something you need to know when blatently getting 822

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Seth Goodman wrote: I am well aware of the differences between the two standards. You would do well to read them both carefully as well as RFC1123. Apparently not since you got them backwards and couldn't even see the problems in your own argument. In the redistribution case, the only

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Albert wrote: Yes, you are right. Debian does this different than the rest of the world. That's because we do it the right way. As of RFC2822 reply-to munging is clearly wrong while in 822 there was a clear indication it was allowed. Furthermore several other list headers are included for

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:20 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html This is fine. Notice how reply to the list, but don't CC me isn't part of what reasonable mailers are expected to do: Reply-To munging does not

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Angelo Bertolli wrote: 2) Respond to the list and don't CC me So in this case, do we hit reply-all, and cut and paste the list email as the To: line, removing all others, etc? Yes. This is a problem with Thunderbird as there is no list reply. One of the few problems with an otherwise

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: Threading is based on message IDs. The mailer threads properly. Threading is based on the References header which is a News header. In-reply-to is insufficient for complete threading when one hop is missing. :P -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Seth Goodman wrote: Getting back to the reply function, the standards are silent as to how to treat Reply-To: for a redistributed message and the field is optional to start with. The preferred reply action for a mailing list message is to reply to the list (the actual sender of the message

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:40:50 -0700 Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong, wrong, wrong. How you can cite 2822 as a reference for reply-to munging while denouncing 822 is beyond me. It was 822 that had an explicit reference to mailing lists as an acceptable use of 822. 2822 *removed*

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:39:40 -0700 Seeker5528 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:40:50 -0700 Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] To add to the insanity (at least with sylpheed-claws-gtk2) it seems if the Reply To: field contains the posters email address then no

RE: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-25 Thread Seth Goodman
From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 2:41 PM Seth Goodman wrote: Getting back to the reply function, the standards are silent as to how to treat Reply-To: for a redistributed message and the field is optional to start with. The preferred reply

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Albert
Angelo Bertolli wrote: [Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:] Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much respond this way on the list lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit reply it replies to the poster only. When I hit reply-all it goes to the poster, the list, and

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Fritz Brown
to know if the issue is different than I percieve. (And, I will want to run Thunderbird on the laptop when I get it finished, and need to know any quirks) Fritz - Original Message - From: Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Responses

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Albert
Angelo Bertolli wrote: [Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:] Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much respond this way on the list lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit reply it replies to the poster only. When I hit reply-all it goes to the poster, the list, and

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:39 -0500, Albert wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: [Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:] Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much respond this way on the list lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit reply it replies to the poster only.

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Albert
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:39 -0500, Albert wrote: snip Yes, you are right. Debian does this different than the rest of the world. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Yes, this ancient piece of Holy Writ was quoted to me years ago. Still, Debian does this

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html This is fine. Notice how reply to the list, but don't CC me isn't part of what reasonable mailers are expected to do: Reply-To munging does not benefit the user with a reasonable mailer. People want to munge Reply-To

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:20 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html This is fine. Notice how reply to the list, but don't CC me isn't part of what reasonable mailers are expected to do: Reply-To munging does not benefit the user

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Using what he recommends ruins threaded reading, because the reply goes to the originator of the message, and the list gets CCd. Mike -- p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! So in this case, do we hit reply-all, and cut and paste the list email as the To: line, removing all others, etc? I use reply all and then cut out everyone's name leaving only the list address. So far, I haven't annoyed anyone. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RE: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Seth Goodman
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:50 PM ... http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html This is written from the perspective of Elm being the reference for all MUA's. Though I used Elm twenty years ago as my primary MUA, the MUA's in widest

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Joe Smith
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Using what he recommends ruins threaded reading, because the reply goes to the originator of the message, and the list gets CCd. That sounds like a

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Joe Smith wrote: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Using what he recommends ruins threaded reading, because the reply goes to the originator of the message, and the list gets CCd.

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe Smith writes: Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what newsgroups were invented for. No. News was invented to reduce traffic. There used to be a rule of thumb on how large a mailing-list should get before it was replaced by a newsgroup. This is supposed to be

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Joe Smith
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith writes: Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what newsgroups were invented for. No. News was invented to reduce traffic. There used to be a rule of thumb on how large a

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Joe Smith
Mike said: Threading is based on message IDs. The mailer threads properly. The message ID should not change based on whom the message is sent AFAICT, so who is in the reply feild does not really matter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.