[vox] [FS] Post-move purging

Michael Cheselka cheselka at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 10:34:25 PDT 2008


> issues like this when they catch unsuspecting people).

I'm not unsuspecting.  It's haste.  I'm in a hurry to respond before
someone else and didn't read the To: field in my race to respond
faster than someone else.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:29, Wes Hardaker <wjhns156 at hardakers.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:45:13 -0700, "Michael Cheselka" <cheselka at gmail.com> said:
>
> MC> Sorry everyone... Gmail's "Reply" and "Reply to all" do the same
> MC> thing :-( .
>
> It's not gmail.  The vox list sets the reply-to header to the list
> itself, which basically makes it impossible for compliant email readers
> to respond to only the person who sent the note you're replying to.  IE,
> no matter what button you push you send it to everyone.
>
> I'll stick by my stance that reply-to headers are evil (because of
> issues like this when they catch unsuspecting people).
>
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
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