From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 22:54:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3927106566B for ; Thu, 5 May 2011 22:54:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72E08FC18 for ; Thu, 5 May 2011 22:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so3151758iyj.13 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 15:54:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.215.93 with SMTP id hd29mr1750869ibb.174.1304636062174; Thu, 05 May 2011 15:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.231.23.68 with HTTP; Thu, 5 May 2011 15:54:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4DC1BEA8.6030108@gmail.com> <20110504224931.9ffd5682.dcdowse@gmx.net> <4DC1E23E.3020001@gmail.com> <20110505014556.50dcea0e.dcdowse@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 18:54:22 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AuTia0Q93-eiWaXVmyYtE37DFik Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: rox-fm X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 22:54:24 -0000 On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:35 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> I wish someone could clearly explain why the reply-to field should >> ONLY have the mailing-list address, or at least have as the default >> address and not the other way around as it is here! > > This is one of the all-time great religious wars of the internet, on > par with vi vs. Emacs and top-posting vs. bottom-posting. > > See http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-harmful.html for one > side of the argument, and > http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.html for the other side. > Man, that's hilarious! Using the same rhetoric but backwards! Very cool read... and I was even kinda shy to ask, I mean so many years on lists and I'd thought I had heard something on this respect but never imagined it was actually a religious point. Thanks again, -- Alejandro