[luau] Administrivia: Reply-To header removed

[Eric Hattemer]

I think the second article makes much more sense.  There's only a few 
mail programs in the world that support "reply to group" functionality.  
I was looking at the archive on the internet and was impressed by how 
threaded it was.  This will not continue if people have to go out of 
their way to make new messages that go just to luau.  And reply to all 
(which is what most people are going to start using) is going to bug 
anyone that posted and doesn't want to go through the trouble to make 
some fancy duplicate mail filter.  And yes, Warren, you are getting two 
copies of this mail in protest.  The first message was written by 
someone who strangely assumed the whole world uses mail programs 
designed for mailing-lists, or would like to receive two copies of every 
message.  I'm sure there's reply-to-group in elm and mutt and whatever, 
but there is no such function in OE, outlook, netscape, eudora, and I'm 
assuming AOL, which probably make up for 99% of American mail clients.  
I'm using mozilla right now, which has no such function.  But if you do 
decide to change it, please tell someone.  I'm sure a lot of people were 
thrown off that the reply button they had always hit no longer functions 
the way they expect. 

-Eric Hattemer

Warren Togami wrote:

>http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>I have changed the setting as part of a test based upon the rationale
>within this page.
>
>http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
>This is some counter rationale as to why reply-to-list is good.
>
>I'll leave it this way for a few weeks and see how it goes.  Basically
>if you want to reply to the list, use "Reply All" rather than "Reply" in
>your mailer.
>
>Warren Togami
>warren at togami.com
>  
>