This Mailinglist - another vote for sanity

sparkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Thu Jan 13 12:27:21 UTC 2005


Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:12:32AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:

>>
>>What an arrogant statement -- 90% of mailing lists use the reply-to in
>>this way, so clearly a lot of people in this world (including the
>>mighty Yahoogroups, Googlegroups, Mailman (otherwise the option would
>>not be there on Mailman, would it?) etc.) think this is a valid
>>"purpose"...
> 
> Hmm, what an arrogant statement--I can't believe you can make a 90/10
> statement like that. I think what you mean might be that 90% of the
> lists _you_subscribe_to_ use Reply-To: the way you want. I can tell you
> that 90% of the lists I subscribe to don't.
> 

I would wager that 90% of people on the list don't care either way and 
will tolerate either method to get the support they want ;-)

Can we leave this until next months newbies start the thread all over 
again please?  I can't remember anyone bringing this up in August (I 
joined the sounder list in late August) or September, but since then it 
has been run through the mill at least once a month and it's took up far 
too much bandwidth.

sparkes
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