[MPlayer-users] pre8 crashes on "Large H.264 MPEG-4" Hubble .mp4 file

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 22:29, The Wanderer wrote:
> This may be desirable in your case, although I'm having a hard time
> imagining a mail-reading routine which would make it difficult to notice

KMail from KDE. It has no way to understand that this is the reply
to one of my posts. gmail.com helpfully filters out my posts
to the lists (i.e. I don't see my own posts), aggravating this.

> responses such as this, but it is blatantly incorrect behaviour for the
> vast majority of mailing list replies. (I, for one, would be - and
> sometimes am - quite irritated to receive a private copy of a message
> sent to a mailing list to which I am subscribed. At best, a private

Why you are irritated when you get two copies?

> Also, no one removed your address from the reply; it was never there in
> the first place. This is because of the Reply-To header, which (properly 
> IMO) is set to include the mailing list address when it goes through the
> list.

But my name IS in the From: field, no?

> I can understand your objecting to not receiving a private copy, 
> although it seems odd to me that you would readily fail to notice a
> response to a thread which you started,

I'm getting 600+ mails a day. Checking all of those for the
"is this a reply to my thread?" will eat hours.

> but please don't accuse people 
> of doing such things intentionally; even I don't remove names from
> Reply-To headers without good reason, although I do set Reply-To back to
> the list so as to prevent replies to the private copy from coming only
> to me (as I have done in this instance).

I do not accuse people from doing this intentionally.
It happens automatically when one uses "Reply" instead of "Reply to all".

> Also, I'd like to note that making multiple identical posts - especially
> in rapid succession - is considered, at best, Very Bad Form. Failing to
> quote in any of them only exacerbates the problem.