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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:20:17 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MFS question - FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20040131.092017.22504480.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040131084821.GH18624@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <BAY1-F54t2zSdwlDgQn0004126c@hotmail.com> <20040122090046.GH908@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20040131084821.GH18624@dragon.nuxi.com>

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In message: <20040131084821.GH18624@dragon.nuxi.com>
            "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:00:47PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
: > > Please DO NOT send me ANY email directly unless it's a privacy issue.
: > >      Reply-to mangled to assist those who don't read the above.
: > 
: > If you want responses sent to the mailing list, you should set the
: > Reply-To header to point to the mailing list rather than a random
: > address.
: 
: Yeah, right.  In what email world do you live in???
: There will be at least one replier to this email that will not obey the
: "Reply-To:" above.

Sadly much of the automated software that's out there doesn't do this
right.  For example, if I hadn't taken the time to notice that there
was a Reply-To field, my software would have included Peter and
David...  Attempts to fix this in the past have lead to frustration :-(

Warner



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