[MPlayer-users] OT: Reply-To munging

[The Wanderer]

Christian Ebert wrote:

> * The Wanderer on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 19:29:45 -0400:
> 
>> (I've left you in the reply list because the only valid reason for 
>> adding yourself to the Reply-To header is if you aren't subscribed
>> to the mailing list; I've added the mailing list itself to the
>> Reply-To header because otherwise the odds are that you would just
>> hit Reply and send whatever response you made directly to me, which
>> is not in either of our interests.)
> 
> Only that you see that opinions are at least controversial and that I
> didn't act out of thoughtlessness, and it's debatable whether the
> mailiing list software configuration or me is to blame:
> 
> <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>
> <http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html>

I've seen those or their like before, and disagree with them very
sharply. Discussion forums should behave like discussion forums; a reply
to a post on a discussion forum should by default go to that forum, not
to the person who made the post. <continued rant snipped>

However, this is not the place for that kind of debate, and I apologize
for having brought it up in the first place; it's just that this is one
of my pet peeves, and I get quite irritated that there's no place I
could go to argue against it where it would *not* be offtopic - other
than generic Complain At The World forums (of which there are almost
certainly a few in the alt.* hierarchy), which would be worse than
useless.

> <ironic/>
> No wonder that if the mailing list software treats one like an idiot,
> one starts to act like an idiot.
> </>

...I'm not entirely sure that I understand what you're trying to say
here. (Not to mention: I'm not certain, but isn't that bad markup
syntax? IIRC, <tag/> indicates a self-closing tag, and </> would close a
tag which consisted simply of <>...)

> But I'm ok with complying to the local customs ;-)

/me bows in acknowledgement

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       The Wanderer

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side of it.

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