From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 27 20:20:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FC2E37B403 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 19956 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jun 2001 03:20:32 -0000 Received: from pd950a3bf.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO kiste) (217.80.163.191) by mail.gmx.net (mail08) with SMTP; 28 Jun 2001 03:20:32 -0000 Message-ID: <004a01c0ff81$3a3093a0$0408a8c0@kiste> From: "Michael Nottebrock" To: "Gerhard Sittig" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" References: <01C0FEFE.8EB2BA80.wmoran@iowna.com> <01062713134503.00453@mukappa.home.com> <20010627230347.I17514@speedy.gsinet> Subject: Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 05:20:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Gerhard Sittig" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 13:13 -0600, Mike Porter wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 09:44, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > > > Is there a reason why you took this off the list? > > > > my mistake (or my mailer's depending on how you look at it). > > If the majordomo config file for the list included the line > > "reply-to: stable@freebsd.org" then all replies would by > > defualt go back to the list. While this isn't ALWAYS > > appropriate, it usually is.... > > Argh, nooooo! Not again, please! Just do *one* search for > "reply-to" and "harmful" in your favourite search engine and make > sure you understand what's broken about this dumb down approach. > This has been discussed recently (besides coming up again and > again without getting any better by doing so). And read http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml , too. Those two documents should make it very clear, that the whole thing is a typical nonsense religious war, with the only possible conclusion being "I am not the listowner. I can do nothing about it but hit the correct key/button in my mailer & shut up". Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message