Please Fix List's Reply-To: Header

[Brett I. Holcomb]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:28:21 -0700
Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:22:09 -0500
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > mailboxes filling up and bouncing back so we'll mess up the reply to
> > headers!  
> 
> This is much the same as the emacs vs. anything else wars, etc.
> 
> OTOH, it's not such a lame excuse when the admin for the list finds his
> bandwidth consumed by idiots whose mailboxes fill while on vacation and
> the bounce messages get propagated to all users including the lamebrain
> thus resulting in a lot of grief.

Maybe, but I have to wonder when 99.98% of the lists seem to handle it with no problems and have for years.
 
> Regardless of your feelings, you will not be able to persuade the admins
> who have made this choice.  Such discussion changes usually end with a
> word from the admin - "end of discussion."

I have no illusions about convincing them.
 
> I'm just thankful that Sylpheed can usually do the right thing, although
> I do find the occasional list mail that has "strange" headers such that
> even Sylpheed can't sleuth out the list reply address!

Like Kmail <G>.  Yes, I'm glad Slypheed does it right.  I went to it because I want to get away from KDE (I stopped at 2.2.1) and with this new box and Gentoo I had the opportunity.  So far I like Sylpheed (I'm using Claws) very much.

> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area
> gentoo 1.4 system