From: Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk>
Cc: The Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] broken-reply-to
Date: 09 Nov 1999 16:35:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lz4sevwrko.fsf@landlord.gbdirect.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk8nreikl.fsf@lanber.cam.citrix.com>
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Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> Hrvoje> Hrvoje Niksic <URL:mailto:hniksic@iskon.hr>
>
> 0> In article <9t9u2mvvejj.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr>, Hrvoje wrote:
>
> Hrvoje> Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:
>
> >> Can anyone provide me with a pointer to the discussion of why
> >> mailing-lists shouldn't put in Reply-To headers.
>
> Hrvoje> The document at <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>
> Hrvoje> sums it up pretty well.
>
> To bring this on-topic for ding-list:
>
> Should the documentation of the broken-reply-to parameter link to that
> document (or a mirror of it on gnus.org)?
Would make things easier, patch attached :
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--- pgnus-0.98/texi/gnus.texi Tue Nov 9 13:00:05 1999
+++ pgnus-0.98-lw/texi/gnus.texi Tue Nov 9 16:34:23 1999
@@ -2075,7 +2075,8 @@
headers in this group are to be ignored. This can be useful if you're
reading a mailing list group where the listserv has inserted
@code{Reply-To} headers that point back to the listserv itself. This is
-broken behavior. So there!
+broken behavior. If you really don't believe us we suggest you go and
+read @file{http://www.unicom.com//pw/reply-to-harmful.html}.
@item to-group
@cindex to-group
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Lee
--
I was doing object-oriented assembly at 1 year old ...
For some reason my mom insists on calling it "Playing with blocks"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-09 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-09 15:16 Lee Willis
1999-11-09 16:02 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-11-09 16:27 ` Toby Speight
1999-11-09 16:35 ` Lee Willis [this message]
1999-11-09 16:53 ` Toby Speight
1999-11-09 20:01 ` Karl EICHWALDER
1999-11-11 13:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-11 15:59 ` Toby Speight
1999-11-11 22:41 ` Karl EICHWALDER
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