[MPlayer-users] OT: Reply-To munging

[Christian Ebert]

* The Wanderer on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 09:07:13 -0400:
> Christian Ebert wrote:
>> <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.

I guessed so ;-)

> 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>

Yup. I do this by pressing "L" instead of "r", or I could
configure my client to behave the right way even when I press "r"
but answer to a list ...

> 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,

I also like broken threads, top-posting, and and and ... things
that destroy this wonderfully simple means of communicating.

> 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.

Off topic or not, you got me thinking and to remove my "private"
Reply-To header, so there's hope: you already got 1 (one) person
listening, heh.
 
>> <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.

By adding the Reply-To the list software behaves as if I would be
so dumb as not being able to make the difference between a public
or personal reply. And being patronized as dumb can have the
effect that you actually start to behave in a dumb way. -- But,
as emphasized by dumb markup, I wasn't too serious.

> (Not to mention: I'm not certain, but isn't that bad markup
> syntax?

I am very certain it is bad markup, I'm not into html but into
LaTeX, sorry.

c
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