OT: Steve Jobs' Walled Garden is Crumbling

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 08:27 AM, Michael Haney wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, David Sanders
> <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Indeed -this is fine in gmail, and if everyone used gmail there'd be
>> no problem. I believe it not to be fine in other mail clients (from
>> what I've heard on this list).
>>
>> To be clear: this isn't something I've ever moaned about - I don't
>> care about getting extra mail - but quite a few others have complained
>> about it and still nothing has been done to prevent it.
>>
>> As another aside - I don't accept the idea that sending email to this
>> list means I then want to receive unsolicited personal e-mail - so
>> no-one should be sending personal emails to list members without
>> asking first on the list IMO. This being the case, I doubt very much
>> that any personal email will be posted if the Reply-To: header is
>> modified. In any case - it's going bike-shed shaped here!
>>
>
> Not fixing the headers on this list is like sitting in a sinking boat
> and yelling at the water gushing in through the hole in the bottom to
> stop and expecting it to obey.
>

/me quite happy with the way this list is setup and wishes the 
ubuntu-users list was similarly setup to facilitate private replies 
without having to muck about.