[ntp:hackers] BitKeeper (was: public server listing)

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Nov 10 04:27:27 PST 2004


At 12:21 PM +0000 2004-11-10, David J Taylor wrote:

>  It does, of course, make this list non-standard compared to most.  Why
>  not give the user of the list the choice of how they want it to behave?

	On the contrary, speaking as one of the postmasters for 
python.org and one of the list admins for the mailman-users mailing 
list software hosted on that site, avoiding reply-to: munging is the 
standard.

	Moreover, for some users, if the reply-to: header is munged, they 
have no way of recovering the previous state.

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     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

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