RE: [code-review] LIST FUNCTIONALITY REQUEST

Damn,
  Consider it dropped.  I have never know of this particular landmine. 
Sorry all.

Kristofer
--- Garrett Goebel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kristofer Hoch wrote:
> > 
> >   I don't know about yall, but I think it'd be nice if I hit the
> > 'reply' button and the reply when directly to the list.  What do
> yall
> > think?
> 
> This topic is a religious powder keg, and best dropped immediately.
> Accept
> that it is the mailing list owners perogative...
> 
>
http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/mlad
> vice/mladvice.html#AEN172
>  
> 4.1.4. Reply-to headers
> At some stage in every list's life, someone will suggest that you
> make the
> Reply-to header point back to the list. Don't do it. There are
> numerous
> technical reasons not to, which are fully documented in Chip
> Rosenthal's
> essay entitled "Reply-to munging considered harmful" at
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html.
> 
> Simply speaking, setting the Reply-to address back to the list can
> cause
> more problems than it solves. Rather than breaking things in this
> manner,
> you should try to educate people by pointing them at the
> aforementioned
> article.
> 
> Let me say it again: DO NOT SET THE REPLY-TO POINTING BACK TO YOUR
> LIST! I
> really mean it.
> 
> Actually, I know experienced list admins who will sometimes munge the
> Reply-to header, but they usually have very good reasons for it.
> Don't do it
> unless you've read and considered the article mentioned above and
> really
> know what you're doing. The circumstances in which this is done are
> usually
> when there is a small list in a homogenous environment (eg the staff
> of a
> small company), or when you have a social list for non-technical
> people who
> go beyond "non-technical" and into the realm of "clue resistant". In
> that
> case, you have my condolences, and I concede that your prime
> directive
> should be to save yourself stress and headaches.
> 
> 
> 
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