[vorbis] [OT] about the icecast mailing list

[Monty]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:20:53AM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > sorry for posting this here, but my mail would make things worse on the
> > icecast list. ;P
> > 
> > A mail daemon is spamming it because some subscribers mailbox is full.
> > Every bounced mail starts another notification by that stupid daemon.
> 
> This is why the Reply-To: field in a mailing list shoud *ALWAYS* point
> back to the author and *NEVER* the list.  Don't blame that user - blame
> the list maintainer for keeping it broken, and encourage them to change
> it ASAP!

Sigh.

OK, I'll change it and forward all the user complaints 'why does my
reply not go to the list?!?!' to you.

FWIW, this has happened once in three years.  OTOH, answering clueless
user mail (back when reply-to pointed to the poster) took time *every
day).

Monty

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