[asterisk-dev] OT: Where Mailing List Replies Should Go (delete if you're not interested)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 06:19:06PM -0500, Steven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:52 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:15:19PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > > On Friday 06 October 2006 17:10, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:24:17PM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:
> > > > > Don't I hate misfires. Don't bother looking for the DoS tool unless
> > > > > you're from Digium.
> > > >
> > > > "Gee... wouldn't it be nice if the list didn't have reply-to set back
> > > > to the list?"
> > > 
> > > We have been through that discussion too many times.  Please don't start
> > > that crap again.
> > 
> > I'm sure all the people who got the attack plan that he didn't want
> > leaked agree with you.
> 
> And do you think one mistake in probably 8-10 months of messages is
> worth all the extra work/messages or lack of on list discussion the non
> munged reply-to would cause is worth it? 

Wow.  I hit 'L' instead of 'r'.  Lots of extra work.

Yeah, this particular error really probably *was* worth it.

> One person made a mistake,

Yep.

>                             he owned up to it.

I haven't seen any messages from the list manager...

>                                                  Why do you feel the need
> to play nanny here?

Not playing nanny.  Expressing a professional opinion concerning lits
operations using a *perfect* example.

>                     Digium might well scrub it out of the archives soon

Hope they do it before Google gets to the pipermail page.

> and had  J. Oquendo been really worried about it, her would have changed
> the URL after his mistake. He also would have had custom URLs for the
> different submissions so he could track the usage for each release.

I'm sure he did those things.

But that justifies this poor choice of list protocols ... why?

Cheers,
-- jra
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