On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:55:44AM -0500, Edward Hahn wrote: > On 12 Feb 2004, at 11:09 PM, Paul Echeverri wrote: > >To save time, imagine several replies, in all flavors of snottiness > >from 'none' to 'quite a lot,' explaining to you how very > >technologically naive, if not downright silly, you are for even having > >to ask such a question, as everyone here usually just hand-hacks their > >.procmailrc to process this kind of reply-to:list automagically. > > Well, I don't have to imagine this at all, it seems. Instead, imagine a politer one which simply says that many years of experience shows that it causes more problems than it solves, and directs you to a URL that discusses the plusses and minuses. <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html> Whoops, you don't have to imagine that either. :-) But I hope this leaves you with a better taste in your mouth than Paul did. Being correct does not condone being rude. For the record, if the average Internet sophisitication of a list is high enough, Reply-To munging can work. But in 17 years of being on mailing lists, I've only seen one where the list stays consistantly at that level. -- "I try not to sound old and cynical, but it's hard to do that when you're old and cynical." -me