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Re: Reply to header


From: Jeremy Chadwick
Subject: Re: Reply to header
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:38:37 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6i

If there's a moderator of this list, I'd like to request he/she chime
in about now.  This has nothing to do with GNU screen.

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.                             |

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:11:34PM -0500, Buddy Burden wrote:
> Shawn,
> 
> >Sorry, but "change the list to work better with Outlook and Outlook
> >Express, and worse with everything else" is the elitist argument.
> 
> Dude, are you seriously accusing me of using *Outlook*???  When I said 
> we'd eventually get around to bashing each other, I had no idea it'd get 
> _that_ vicious ...
> 
> Thunderbird 0.8, Gentoo Linux 2.6.8.
> 
> I have yet to see any evidence that adding the reply-to headers would 
> cause behaviour that is worse with _anything_ else, much less 
> _everything_ else.  Please refer to Phil's quite excellent link provided 
> earlier (where, I note, the term "elitist" is not really original to me 
> (not that I imagined that it was)).  (If you prefer a more technical 
> term to describe your argument, we could use "relativist fallacy".)
> 
> I really was planning not to respond further--I even let David's 
> grumpy-ass reply slide completely(*)--but ... Outlook?? <shaking head>
> 
> 
>               -- Buddy
> 
> 
> (*) If I _were_ going to reply to David, I probably would merely point 
> that, by his own logic, his objection "I get enough spam already" is 
> moot, since my MUA automatically removes spam quite nicely.
> 
> 
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