ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

[Romeyn Prescott]

At 7:19 PM +0100 12/14/04, Thom May scribbled:
>* Neil Woolford (neil at neilwoolford.co.uk) wrote :
>>  At 17:37 14/12/04, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>  >The LIST sent me this message.  If I reply to the message, it should go
>>  >back to the list.  The author didn't send it to me, he sent it to the
>>  >LIST.  The list sent it to me.
>>  >
>>  >...ROMeyn
>>
>
>>  I know this stirs strongly held opinions, but why would this be the wrong
>>  way to do things?  Answer to be as brief and logical as the quote from
>>  ROMeyn at the head of the email please...
>>
>The mail client should set policy, not the list.
>If I want to reply to the list, i use the reply to list button.
>If I want to reply to the user, i use the reply button.
>Setting reply-to to the list breaks this.
>-Thom

OK...so what I'm getting from this is that "Mailing Lists" are merely 
E-mail "reflectors" and when you subscribe you effectively set up a 
mirror pointing in your direction?  I've never really thought of them 
that way, but if I do, then your assertion makes sense.

But getting back to my "lowest common denominator" argument:  While 
this is an Ubuntu list, the logical assumption may be that everyone 
subscribed to the list is using Ubuntu/Evolution to do so.  I am not. 
My main computer is a Mac PowerBook running OS X.  I'm a Eudora fan 
and user of many, MANY years and I'm not going to stop now.  Eudora 
doesn't have a "Reply to List" feature.  It's reply to the message or 
"Reply to all".  The latter is what I have to do and then manually 
strip out the original author so that I'm not one of "those people" 
who sends a message to both.

$0.02,
...ROMeyn
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