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[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 10 April 2006 14:49, John wrote:


> If not, then its mailing lists should conform with the way the
> email clients it ships actually work.

This is just plain wrong, there's even an RFC on it. RFCs define 
standards that the internet works on.

Reply-To: munging definitely is harmful and no mail list software 
should ever change/remove/delete/forge headers

let's not go down the road of claiming that we have to change lists to 
suit model xyz mailer, we already have Outlook to contend with, let's 
not make it worse.

If Thunderbird is broken, then get the Thunderbird developers to fix 
it, or get Ubuntu devs to patch it

> It's _only_ on the Ubuntu lists it's a problem for me.

-- 
If only you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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