Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [arch-users] fixing the problem of posting to the old mailing list

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    Tom> At some point the amount of effort put into flaming about
    Tom> reply-to munging exceeds the amount of effort to make better
    Tom> MUAs.  Collective insanity at its finest.

It's not about reply-to munging.  It's about cooperation.  Cooperative
development conforms to the standards, or proposes amendments or new
standards.  The Reply-To mungers have never done that; instead they
abuse a convenient existing facility.

Reply-To munging is about one more way of screwing people who
cooperate with those they have never met and may never meet by
conforming to cooperatively developed standards.

Reply-To munging is a flash-point precisely because the argument is
about as strong as it gets.  People with broken MUAs _are_ the
majority, and those who have gone to the effort of creating RFCs and
conforming MUAs _can_ reprogram the MUAs and write a new RFC for a
Real-Reply-To: header.  It would be more convenient for the majority
to sanction the abuse.

I'm surprised that that's a place you're willing to go, Tom.

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