[MR] Help with Court etiquette?

Bruce Glassford bruce at benchite.net
Mon Nov 28 14:54:20 PST 2005


That and the perpetual top vs bottom (continued)

Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Michael Houghton <herveus at radix.net> wrote:
> 
>> This subject comes up here from time to time. It appears that the
>> "Reply-to considered harmful" camp continues to carry the day. I do
>> agree with your position on the subject.
> 
> It's not that Reply-To is considered harmful, it's the overwriting of
> the Reply-To header by the mailing list software if an individual has
> a Reply-To set in their mail header that is considered "bad", which is
> what would be the case if everything defaulted to sending to the list.
> 
> For me, about 50% of the lists I read (mostly on Yahoo) default to the
> list, and the rest defautl to the original sender (mostly these lists
> are using Mailman or Yahoo specifically configured not to default to
> the list). There's no standard way of doing it.
> 
> Of such things are Internet Holy Wars born.

versus interlineal posting
> 
> -- Istvan

... Bruce



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