[vorbis-dev] Just back in town

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Sat Jul 28 12:20:24 PDT 2001



On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:29:33PM +0200, H?vard Kv?len wrote:
> xiphmont at xiph.org (Monty) writes:
> 
> > > Sorry, all, this was a 'reply' boo boo.  We can have an offline
> > > discussion of motorcycles and internet providers... :)
> > 
> > Ha, well, you're forgiven as I think I forgot to strip the list off
> > of the to: list myself :-)
> 
> Maybe it's time to disable the "Reply-To" header that gets inserted
> when sending a mail to the list?  It's the Wrong Thing[TM].
> 
> This page explains it pretty well:
> <URL:http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>

It is arguably the wrong thing, but in a real-world metric, people
will screw up more often (forgetting to reply to list) without the
Reply-To: than they will screw up (accidentally replying to list) with
it.

Taking a discussion off list is not the normal mode of conversation.

Monty

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