<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Liam Proven wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:575131af0909300701s355d5947mae86cc7db4e98267@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be"><amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, September 30, 2009 14:17, Liam Proven wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The email came from the list, not from the individual. The reply should go to where the mail came from: the list. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Sorry, you are wrong. From: Liam Proven <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com"><lproven@gmail.com></a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sounder@lists.ubuntu.com">sounder@lists.ubuntu.com</a> List-Post: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sounder@lists.ubuntu.com"><mailto:sounder@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Sender: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sounder-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">sounder-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Errors-To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sounder-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">sounder-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Some argue that the reply should go back to where the email came from _first_. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sounder@lists.ubuntu.com">sounder@lists.ubuntu.com</a> 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. </pre> </blockquote> 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.<br> <br> Stephen.<br> </body> </html>