On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:41:23 -0600, Danny Sauer
On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:32 am, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: ...
Why, do you have that much time to waste as to harp on such a mundane issue? Why do you think anyone has to defend "this policy?" This is the way it is, it will not change, nor will you change it for this list, or any EZMLM driven mail list. You have two choices, we all have choices, either change email clients or find another list to your liking.
You're entitled to your opinions, but once again this is a "because that's the way it is" answer. You may find this thread annoying but so far the majority thinks this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
I'm part of the *actual* majority who either 1) thinks the policy is good or 2) lives with it. We haven't been posting, because this is redundant, off-topic, and ineffectual.
Changing headers in messages in order to compensate for stupid mail clients is bad. Anyone whose mail client can't properly handle a mailing list is broken. Period. Designing around broken clients is a poor decision - people with broken clients should get a good client, or learn to live with things being broken. They should *not* expect someone else to mangle posts, especially by overriding a perfectly valid reply-to header (yes, some people actually use that header for valid purposes).
The majority is still sitting out, waiting for this stupid thread and the few users of incompetent mail programs to go away.
--Danny
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I was the original poster to this thread. I am sorry it has degenerated into 'nearly but not quite' a flame war. That was never my intention. My original post did indeed point out the fact I thought that there was a problem with Gmail. I did not in the first instance question the way the list handled the reply options. Now I did indeed start to question this later in the history of the thread. I'm not trying to get out of this but it does now appear that I was correct in my assumption that it is GMail that is at fault. I do subscribe to another mailing list with my POP mail account using Kmail and I agree that it is excellent in its handling of the list. I don't want to swap my list address over to a POP account as I use the Gmail one because of the massive free storage it offers. So I will put up with it. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR