On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
>My -1 was implied by the fact that I intentionally set up the list to
>have no munging.
>
>It is more than just MHO that munging is wrong and harmful. I'll leave
>the googling to you, but many smart and wise people agree that "munging
>reply-to is considered harmful."
>
The inconsistency with this is more harmful. Many other Fedora lists
change the reply address. Decide on it, one way or the other and stick
with it across all the Fedora mailing lists rather than having a
individual policy for each and every list which is inconsistent with
each other. My vote for +1 implied staying with what others lists have
followed. If it's require a debate, its needed to be done at the project
level and not here.
I disagree. The project-level decision was made outside of our control,
long before I was involved. I think it was an incorrect decision to
make. Fedora is about leading with smart standards, not doing the same
things others do because it is comfie.
If we are to make a project-level change, it has to start somewhere.
But really, much better people than me have debated reply-to munging
endlessly. I happen to fall on one side of that debate, but whatever.
There are more important things to worry about than the fact that we
make every person fend for themselves on mailing lists by enabling them
to accidentally send private thoughts to world. I, for one, always
check my headers before I send. Which is why I'm not usually caught by
munging or lack of munging. My email goes where I want it to go because
I sent it that way, not because of some munging.
- Karsten
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