mail to individuals

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 15:36 +0200, Odd wrote:
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 21:14 +0200, Odd wrote:
> >> Derek Broughton wrote:
> >>> Michael Haney wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The response from most of the support group to my problem is similar
> >>>> to the response of some people in this group over the email issue,
> >>>> they suggest replacing the monitor just like people here suggest
> >>>> replacing the email client rather than facing up to the real issue at
> >>>> hand.  They don't want to be bothered with being fair to every user
> >>>> who happens to use their email client of choice because in their minds
> >>>> the one they use is the best and everyone else who doesn't do it their
> >>>> way is wrong.
> > 
> >>> OK - but YOU want to break _my_ client's standard's compliant
> >>> handling of list mail, by putting in a Reply-To header.  Doing
> >>> something wrong because everybody else is doing something wrong,
> >>> doesn't make it right.  So sure, go ahead and use a broken client
> >>> if you want, but don't demand that the list be crippled because
> >>> you insist on doing so.
> >  
> >> How would the list be crippled by adding a Reply-To: header?
> >> It would still include the List-Post: header.
> > 
> > Args Odd, you're driving me nuts.  Reply-To is to be set by the
> > original sender of a message to direct private responses to a specific
> > mail account.
> 
> 99.99% of users don't care.

So 99.99% of users are wrong, they ressemble lemmings that follow the easy
way.  As long as I have a brain to think with, I refuse to join a majority
on provable issues (even if you call me fascist which in my case would be
more of an insult than you can imagine).

> > Abusing it by mailing list software as you suggest or
> > by procmail as Amadee does is still violating the sender's intentions.
> 
> No. Just a very, very, very small minority that care about such
> things. 99.99% of senders have no intentions at all with regards
> to the Reply-TO: header. They don't even know it exists.

Lemmings again.

> > As an example I'm setting it again to redirect responses, and yes
> > that mailing list is functional - just try it.

Sorry for the mistake, it's only set in my followup.

> It's functional, but does not work at optimum functionality.

This statement tops the other ones in sillyness, you didn't even try that
list otherwise I as it's owner had seen any attempt to subscribe or post.

Regs
  Siggy
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