On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:56 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On fre 27 nov 2009 16:47:54 CET, "rich...@buzzhost.co.uk" wrote > >> Matus, why are you once more sending me off list replies? > >> Again, will you *please* keep your replies *ON LIST*. The obvious is to simply ignore such private mails which are obviously not really private - perhaps after reminding the other once.
> On 27.11.09 17:17, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > priceless reply-to > > Priceless? Bullshit. Useless and annoying. Breaks (or at least makes harder) ACK. see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for more. > possibility for private replies. I even know of average users which developed the habit of abusing the subject to send a "private" ("personal" is probably the better name) mail via the ML. > I sometimes send private reply intentionally, when it is off-topic and/or > something people in this list don't need to see. Which is perfectly possible if one edits the To: header. But what if one forgets it? So Reply-To Munging is in general bad. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
