A request from your reviewer
Mark Crispin
mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU
Fri Apr 13 17:08:06 CEST 2007
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> It is not obvious wether the courtesy should be in the original sender
> (who should add a Reply-To or Mail-Followup-To if he does not want to
> filter out duplicates) or in the "replier".
Indeed.
Some people want to get the separate copy; they direct their mailing list
traffic into an auxillary mailbox for later inspection, but want threads
in which they have participated to reach their primary mailbox.
Either way, it is a personal preference, and as such properly belongs with
the person who has that preference.
There are mechanisms in the mail protocols by which headers identify the
sender's reply preferences. I consider it arrogant for a sender to be
unwilling to use (or even learn!) how to set these, yet expect me to
remember his preferences and manually edit headers in outgoing mail. I
don't respond well to being the recipient of such demands.
Put bluntly, I refuse to keep other people's preferences. I have enough
trouble keeping my own.
With that said, I would be happy to help Michael configure his MUA to
indicate his reply-preferences. It's the difference between teaching a
man to fish, giving him a fish, and having him demand that I catch fish
for him for the rest of my life. The more people who know how to fish,
the better.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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