[lug] Hacking Society Meeting tonight!

Rob Riggs rob at pangalactic.org
Thu Jun 6 14:01:37 MDT 2002


Sure, blame the nasty reply-to header and the mailing list software. It 
 was a user error akin to forgetting to hit the spell check button. This 
is probably why MS-Word spell checks on the fly by default now. Why 
don't you just write a elisp macro to deal with it on your MUA? ;)

-Rob

Tkil wrote:

>>>>>>"Tkil" == tkil  <tkil at scrye.com> writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>
>Tkil> just btw, you still have "may 30" on that announcement.  hacking
>Tkil> a time machine?
>
>And this is a FINE example of why Reply-To munging is bad bad bad.
>
>Sorry, bit of an "in-joke" -- there was a discussion about this on the
>NCLUG list.  Apparently some software makes it challenging to
>differentiate between "reply" (== reply to sender only) and
>"follow-up" (== post response to entire newsgroup/mailing list).
>
>On the other paw, someone had the bright idea that it ought to be
>configurable, on a per-subscriber basis, in the mailing list software
>itself.
>
>Alas.
>
>t.
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