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Re: [DotGNU]Mailing-list set-up
From: |
Charles Iliya Krempeaux |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]Mailing-list set-up |
Date: |
07 Aug 2001 00:02:25 -0700 |
Hello,
On 07 Aug 2001 08:20:46 +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Marco Manfredini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > [Btw. I hit "reply" to Rhys' message, which put rhys Email into the
> > recipient field & I didn't realize that and send him the message
> > exclusively. Now I've set the reply-to for this msg, but couldn't this
> > be made by the mailing-list software? I find this distracting, because
> > all other lists I'm on set the reply-to field]
>
> I know that a large number of lists do reply-to munging.
> However, that violates RFC1123, and it violates the principle of
> minimal munging, and it makes it virtually impossible to have
> discussions across multiple mailing lists (now one doesn't often
> want to do that, but imagine we want to discuss with the Perl 6
> folks how their VW can be integrated with DotGNU... the only
> reasonable way to have such a discussion IMHO is to have it
> across two mailing lists, one of ours and one of theirs.)
>
> For a more detailed discussion please refer to
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Maybe you should put this in a FAQ somewhere. It seems to come
up over and over again.
See ya
Charles Iliya Krempeaux
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- Re: [DotGNU]gcc?, Rhys Weatherley, 2001/08/06
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- [DotGNU]We can destroy Microsoft's effective monopoly of the desktop, Norbert Bollow, 2001/08/06
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- Re: [DotGNU]gcc?, David Sugar, 2001/08/06
- Re: [DotGNU]gcc?, Bradley M. Kuhn, 2001/08/06
- Re: [DotGNU]gcc?, Rhys Weatherley, 2001/08/06
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