Off topic: Reply-to munging [ was Re: Aladin release 3.5 announcement

Tony Linde Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk
Fri Jan 27 05:43:00 PST 2006


Let's just leave it that people reply to the poll when it is posted so we
don't load this list with such traffic.

T. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-interop at eso.org [mailto:owner-interop at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of John Taylor
> Sent: 27 January 2006 11:48
> To: interop at ivoa.net
> Subject: Off topic: Reply-to munging [ was Re: Aladin release 
> 3.5 announcement
> 
> I don't suppose the list admin (if he or she is listening) 
> could switch off the reply-to munging?  At risk of starting a 
> flame war on the pros and cons (see: 
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html ) it _is_ a 
> pretty dangerous feature and could be the cause of some 
> career-ending embarrassment. 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> Sebastien Derriere wrote:
> >> Rudi Albrecht wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Jerome,
> >>
> >> With all due respect for French as an important language: please 
> >> refrain from posting messages to interop at ivoa.net in 
> languages other 
> >> than English.
> >>     
> >
> >   Sehr geehrte Rudi,
> >
> >   I think that it was not Jerome's intention to post a message in 
> > french to the interop mailing list. He was probably willing to send 
> > this message as a private reply to Pierre, but was fooled by the 
> > Reply-to: field that Pierre had set to interop at ivoa.net
> >   He's not the first to do this mistake... and I would bet not the 
> > last one to do so.
> >   Best regards,
> >
> > Sebastien.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> 



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