On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:25 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Bob van der Poel <bob@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > Oh, and the link you post really assumes that everyone is using ELM. I
> > used that program in the 1980s ... I think this is 2010 :) Maybe I
> > need to put on my reverse-time-suit :)
>
> If you've never received a potentially embarrassing personal email
> inadvertently via a public mailing list, you clearly haven't been
> around for as long as...
>
> Hey -- hang on -- you've been around for ages!
>
> Either you're very careful and you look away discreetly when other
> people do weird things, or you've mostly been hanging out on lists
> that don't do reply-to munging. Me, I don't really want to see
> another "hey! how are you? I'm fine, just about to divorce so-and-so"
> or "you guys really sold me out on that audio reseller deal"... No, I
> really don't.
>
> The arguments about convenience are mostly moot, you could argue
> either side. The difference in seriousness of the most common "user
> failure" case is the argument that surely matters most.
As well as the fact that reply-to munging removes options (reply, reply
all, and reply list ALL do the same thing).
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