[Fwd: Re: FC10 Gnome desktop icons gone]

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Mar 2 16:24:03 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 15:01 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> On this list, the Reply-To header is not rewritten - one is added
>> pointing back to the list. If you have your own Reply-To, then
>> replies show up for both. I have to delete the sender's address on
>> about 25% of the messages I send.
> 
> I usually don't bother to do that.  I (quite rightly) presume that
> they've deliberately added their address, and want private copies.
> That's the proper way to respond to a message with more than one
> reply-to address (reply to all of them).
> 
> If they're silly enough to have just put their address in the
> reply-to(*) header, as well, without realising that you shouldn't do
> that by default, that's their problem.  Otherwise, I mightn't be
> replying to some people who've deliberately set things to work that way.
> 
> It's not up to me to try and second guess whether they know what they're
> doing, or not.
> 
The problem I run into is that they reply to me, instead of the
list. I guess I should really create another email address just for
the Fedora lists...

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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