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

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:44:52AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > 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.

Because too many people use fucking retarded MUAs. Like pine.

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