rox-fm

Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org
Thu May 5 22:54:24 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:35 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org> wrote:
>> I wish someone could clearly explain why the reply-to field should
>> ONLY have the mailing-list address, or at least have as the default
>> address and not the other way around as it is here!
>
> This is one of the all-time great religious wars of the internet, on
> par with vi vs. Emacs and top-posting vs. bottom-posting.
>
> See http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-harmful.html for one
> side of the argument, and
> http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.html for the other side.
>

Man, that's hilarious! Using the same rhetoric but backwards!

Very cool read... and I was even kinda shy to ask, I mean so many
years on lists and I'd thought I had heard something on this respect
but never imagined it was actually a religious point.

Thanks again,

--
Alejandro


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