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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:04:02 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail)
Message-ID:  <01dc01c292c6$e31cca90$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Terry writes:

> Then you should read section 3.5 of RFC-2076
> and section 3.6.2 of RFC-2822, so you can be
> enlightened.

RFC-2076 is documentation, not prescriptive; in any case, section 3.5 does
not conflict with my observations.

I've already cited section 3.6.2 of RFC-2822, which is the standard upon
which I based my observations.

> See also all of the Draft RFC draft-meyer=
> reqbehaviors-manager, which mandates that
> end-to-end fields not be modified ...

That draft no longer exists, and did not become a RFC.

> Frankly, your headers indicate that your MUA
> is Outlook Express version 6.00.2720.3000.  In
> that MUA, there is an icon bar in the message
> viewing window, ans the second and third buttons
> from the left are "Reply" and "Reply All",
> respectively.

But there is no button for "reply to a mailing list that isn't identified
anywhere in the headers."

> ... where the third menu item is "Reply to
> Sender" , and the fourth is "Reply to All".

The sender is the list owner, not the list itself.  A reply to all still
requires that I delete the sender; it saves no effort as compared with
simply typing the list name over the sender's name.  (Many posters here are
lazy and leave the original sender's address in the To: field, but I don't
like to receive two copies of everything, and I presume others don't like
that, either.)

> Actually, you had to go a fair distance out
> of your way to send a private message to a
> mailing list, since you had to manually
> add an address.

No, I simply performed my usual operation of typing the mailing list address
in the To: field.  I have to do that for every reply to these lists.  It
required no additional effort beyond what I usually expend to reply to the
list.

However, I didn't deliberately send a private message to the list.  I'm just
so used to replacing that field for every single reply to the list that I do
it automatically.




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