Re: Reply-to mangling

Alex Holden writes ("Re: [gnupic] Reply-to mangling"):
> Before this turns into a flame war, I've listened to both sides (both  
> the people who replied to the list and those who contacted me  
> privately), and the "Yes" vote significantly outnumbers the "No" vote  
> so I've decided to turn reply-to mangling on. Personally I still  
> think it's an ugly workaround for something that ought to be an email  
> client feature, but I do recognise that I'm in the minority in  
> feeling that way.

You should change it back.  Voting by counting responses like that is
a terrible way to decide because clueless people are prefentially
willing to inundate both people and lists with content-free messages.

Also, you are punishing the people with good software to help the
people with bad software.  As one of the people with good software I
object most strongly !

> >   But that was another list, not this.  For that matter, just what
> > sort of list *was* that?  [...]

It's happened at least twice on ukcrypto to my knowledge.  Because I
hang around on mainly technical lists I tend not to be exposed too
much to the Reply-To munging braindamage (which is more prevalent in
lists full of the computer-ignorant).

Ian.