mail to individuals

[Stephen]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, September 30, 2009 14:17, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The email came from the list, not from the individual. The reply
>>> should go to where the mail came from: the list.
>>>       
>> Sorry, you are wrong.
>>
>> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
>> To: sounder at lists.ubuntu.com
>> List-Post: <mailto:sounder at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sender: sounder-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Errors-To: sounder-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>>     
>>> The individual did not email me; they emailed the list. The list then
>>> emailed me. The reply should go back to where the email came from
>>> last.
>>>       
>> Some argue that the reply should go back to where the email came from
>> _first_.
>>     
>
> As you know perfectly well, the headers have been passed forward from
> the list handler. *IT* send the message to you, not me. I mailed
> sounder at lists.ubuntu.com and so did you.
>
> You are trying to argue the truth of something that is not actually
> the case to support your argument, which at best is sophistry.
>
> We are not all sending emails to one another. We are sending emails to
> the listserver; the listserver is emailing us copies of them. What the
> headers say is irrelevant.
>
> Indeed, given that most people on the Internet have no idea that such
> a thing as an email header exists, let alone what it says or what is
> done with them, some arcane Unix rule about processing them is
> /utterly/ irrelevant.
>
> Basically, the RFC is the result of some impassioned Unix nerd winning
> an argument. It is wrong and nonsensical.
>
> These are not private messages; it is a public discussion forum. The
> mails go to it and come from it and it is therefore absolutely obvious
> that this is where replies should go, too.
>
> Shock horror. An RFC is wrong or crazy. It happens. Nobody seriously
> suggested routing IP over carrier pigeons, even if a bunch of
> Norwegian nutters actually implemented it.
>
>   
You are correct, but I don't think it will make any difference. That is 
the reason I joined lists to participate in general discussions. Besides 
I don't want to send private messages to individual's that I don't know.

Stephen.
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