Reply-To mailing list?

[John Cowan]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 10:20 AM Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com>
wrote:


> >  Chip Rosenthal's classic "Reply-to Munging Considered Harmful"
>
> Let him rest in peace.
>

"Death will not release you.  (Even if you die.)"  --rule 0 of the Los
Angeles Science Fantasy Society

(Has he in fact died since 2016?  He has a common name, but I can't find
anything that looks like an obituary.)

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
> https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html


I respond to that with the two laws of FidoNet:

1. Thou shalt not be excessively annoying.
2. Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.

> >  Mailing list software is not "the author of the message".
>
> What's the PURPOSE of a mailing list but to foster DISCUSSION?
>

True.  But not all discussion is best held in public.  Some is off-topic,
some would offend certain list members, some is potentially slander.

In any case, this is a religious issue, and I have no desire to start a
religious war, so this is my last post on this topic.




John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Heckler: "Go on, Al, tell 'em all you know.  It won't take long."
Al Smith: "I'll tell 'em all we *both* know.  It won't take any longer."
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