[svlug] Fw: MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

[Javilk]

> 	Hmm.  I don't think I'm subscribed to a single list that
> rewrites headers.  The only header that could possibly be rewritten is
> Reply-To, and I used to deliberately have my own Reply-To address.
> I'd hate to think that someone would have been unable to get to my
> personal mailbox because a mailing list had rewritten my headers.  It
> seems awfully fascist of a list to rewrite someone's mail headers.

     You would.  Not to get into a battle, but we've had nearly the exact
conversation before several times, yet you always write as if "this is such
a surprise".  I'll just chalk it up to your style of argument.

> 	Well, I use procmail to sort all list traffic into a separate
> folder.  It seems awfully fascist to force people to post publically.

     It depends on what the list is about.  When the Web Consultant's list
started out, it was set up the way this list is set up.  That changed
within the first week due to the clamor of the subscribers to see what the
answers to all the questions were.  Web folks, who one may imagine know
about the Group Reply options.

> >      Personally, I prefer lists that insure the reply-to address is
> > the list; as it seems, do most list managers and most members of
> > most lists.
> 
> 	You say "most lists", and yet I am not subscribed to a single
> list that rewrites headers that I deliberately put in there.  Perhaps
> this is purely your experience.

     Only the few dozen lists that I have walked through in the few years
(since 92???) I have been on, both the net and on internal corporate LAN's
at various clients.  (I am a consultant, I work at several different
places each year, so I end up on a lot of discussion lists.) I don't think
I've seen a corporate list that didn't redirect to the list by default. 
Almost all the external lists I have belonged to also redirect to the
list. 

     (And two of them, run by a delete key happy SOB of a censor, does not
want anyone e-mailing anything off the list to anyone.  Once confided it
upsets his funding sources.  That is one list I often leave off when I
reply directly to the people asking the questions.  Yes, there I do have
to go after the headers to cut and paste the address.  Two lists out of
dozens where reply-to is grossly abused.) 

     I realize I have zero chance of rendering svlug's mailing list more
real-world like.  Just letting our friend from Israel, (is it?) know that
reply-to set to the writer isn't the norm from what I've seen.

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