On Monday 02 February 2009 18:49:26 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/02/02 16:24 (GMT-0800) Jerry Houston composed:
On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:57 Nico Sabbi wrote:
are you kidding? the problem should be solved at the root: where the problem lies (the mail server settings)
You're absolutely right about solving it at the root, but you're sadly mistaken about where the root is.
I think you're overlooking a deeper root.
Yes, poorly or wrongly trained users. :P
No smaller a problem than list posts not getting sent where intended or technical violation of 2833 (which is not law) is the recurring pollution from threads about the subject.
RFC 2833 may not be law, but standards shouldn't be taken lightly. Standards (*particularly RFCs*) are what allows us to interoperate. They are the foundation of the Internet. E.g. TCP, UDP, and IP are all RFCs.
The most effective overall fix would be munging, assuming the list software could not be changed to accommodate a user preference on the issue.
If it was an opt-in option, I'd be down. The default *must* be standards compliance.
Of the many lists I'm on, the complaints about "bad" reply behavior come almost exclusively on lists that do not munge.
On lists that do not munge, I've never had anyone send a message to the list that was meant for private mail. Regular complainers can be killfiled and missed messages can be resent, but messages to the list can't be unposted.
And, this one is the one where they recur most vehemently and frequently.
Well, then perhaps you aren't subscribed to the Debian mailing lists.
FWIW, the primary user help list for the most popular Linux distro was munging when I was last subscribed there.
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