On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 02:20:12PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I changed my preset for all user group lists a while ago because of problems (at mailman.lug.org.uk and lugog.org.uk among others) which were delaying messages. Often user group mailing list messages are cries for help and sometimes it's important that messages get to the recipient fast (directly), as well as fairly reliably (by the list).
Very unlikely for this list to suffer such delays as it's run by a competant person (*waves at Noodles*), on a reasonable box... For really slow lists, see Brighton LUG... quite often 10 mins before a mail gets through that.
I can change it back for ALUG if people want, but I didn't think there were strong opinions about this here. Are there?
M-F-T is a buggy non-standard header (see IETF DRUMS WG discussions of it) and mail clients should ignore it. If someone has strong views on where replies should go, put it in your sig, not hidden in DJB's pet header.
Just because it's a buggy non-standard header (which I'm fairly sure I covered all ready), doesn't make it impossible for you to honour it... surely you can configure your mail client to show you this header if it exists... And you appear to be suggesting that people read sigs more often than headers... I don't know about other members of the list, but I tend to skip anything after the magical "-- " line, as it's probably not relevant.
On a different topic, what would it take to stop Brett Parker drive-by flaming me on ALUG main? At least this one wasn't a total fabrication.
Not a lot, Mr Mark Ray.