Mon, 14 Aug 2006, by suse@rio.vg: [..]
Simply put, the vast majority of replies to messages coming from a list are meant to go back to the list. In the vast majority of cases, munging the Reply-to makes things easier and quicker for the vast majority of people.
Being voted for by a majority doesn't automatically make it the "right way".
Personality, the reply-to is not a big deal to me, but I despise whiny brats that rant on about how everyone in the universe should conform to their console fetish, or how their method is somehow the most "proper" regardless of the utility to the vast majority of users.
So, what's next then, the majority thinks that this threading thing is only getting in the way of how "easy" it is to abuse an ongoing discussion to post a new mail, so they'll vote it to be ignored in future? Next, no more CLI questions or advice allowed, because that's just too fucking difficult and intimidating? Then what, HTML and blinking smiley's in all posts? Why don't we just start an MSN group right away, so all fucking nitwits can effordlessly and thoughtlessly do whatever they're used to in chat channels?
The computer is supposed to conform to me, not the other way around.
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