At 12:05 -0500 030204, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote:
Well, in terms of members who posted when it was being considered a couple months ago, the vote ran roughly 3-to-1 against the change - so this is the poison that list members have not picked. Of course, majority opinion is not always the best barometer on technical issues, but IMHO it was in this case.> Wez felt that dropping the "Reply-To:" header would stop thoseconspiracies of dumb mail clients and dumb majordomo - and it has at least done that. Other lists are able to use "Reply-To:" to maintain threading without having to yield to dumb autoresponders, but I can't fault Wez, who already has a full plate, for not researching the> differences.If that's the only way to get rid of those endless autoresponse loops (with the amount of research that can be afforded), then perhaps it's a necessary evil. No free lunch. I guess the list members have picked their poison.
FWIW, at that time I did not post on the subject. It seemed wrong to make the change, but it also a matter on which I was not sufficiently informed to express an opinion. In the past couple months, we have all become better informed - but I'm still not sufficiently informed to offer assistance to the listmom, and I have not seen anyone else offer such assistance either. In that sense, I agree with your comment: I'm not doing the research, so can hardly complain if no one else does.
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John
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