[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues

["Sam BC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the end it is a personal preference, whatever reasons there are to each
side. The list owner decides, doesn't really matter...

SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jules Bean
> Sent: 02 July 2000 15:17
> To: Mathias Hasselmann
> Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> >
> > But NO! The list manager does not sets the reply-to header -
> > as other list managers do! This a really bad behaviour, since
> > you can't simply reply postings and mail user agents have
> > nearly no chance to track threads.
>
> First, do a web search on "reply-to considered harmful".  Once you've
> read, understood, and thought about that information, read the
> documentation for your email client and discover features it has which
> may be called a 'group reply' or a 'list reply'. Also discover the
> 'mail-followup-to' header and find out whether your email client
> supports that.
>
> When you've digested all that information, if you /still/ think that
> reply-to is correct on mailing lists, ask again ;)
>
> Jules
>
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> Jules Bean                          |        Any sufficiently advanced
> jules@{debian.org,jellybean.co.uk}  |  technology is indistinguishable
> jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx              |               from a perl script
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