Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: the dangers of no reply-to munging; Xouvert update

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Jonathan Walther <address@hidden>

    > Ain't gonna happen.  When peoples annoyance threshhold goes up, they go
    > away.  A lot of mailing list managers won't put up with complaints from
    > their users.  If making their members happy means breaking standards
    > that they don't know or care about, they will do it.  Yahoo groups and
    > Topica.com, for instance.

So, what are you supposed to do when N list members complain one way,
and M complain another way?   Compare the magnitudes of M and N?

It's pathetic that such a conceptually simple change to the popular
free software MUAs isn't a practical option because it has to go
through so few people and so many layers of process before it's widely
available.  We should all be asking why that's the case.

-t