[TUHS] off-topic list

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Sat Jun 23 07:04:43 AEST 2018


On 06/22/2018 01:25 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> True, but possible since some time, for the thing i maintain, too, 
> unfortunately.  It will be easy starting with the next release, however.

I just spent a few minutes looking at how to edit headers in reply 
messages in Thunderbird and I didn't quickly find it.  (I do find an 
Add-On that allows editing messages in reader, but not the composer.)

> Yes.  Yes.  And then, whilst not breaking the thread stuff as such, 
> there is the "current funny thing to do", which also impacts thread 
> visualization sometimes.  For example replacing spaces with tabulators 
> so that the "is the same thread subject" compression cannot work, so 
> one first thinks the subject has really changed.

IMHO that's the wrong way to thread.  I believe threading should be done 
by the In-Reply-To: and References: headers.

I consider Subject: based threading to be a hack.  But it's a hack that 
many people use.  I think Thunderbird even uses it by default.  (I've 
long since disabled it.)

> At the moment top posting seems to be a fascinating thing to do.

I blame ignorance and the prevalence of tools that encourage such behavior.

> And you seem to be using DMARC, which irritates the list-reply mechanism 
> of at least my MUA.

Yes I do use DMARC as well as DKIM and SPF (w/ -all).  I don't see how 
me using that causes problems with "list-reply".

My working understanding is that "list-reply" should reply to the list's 
posting address in the List-Post: header.

List-Post: <mailto:tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>

What am I missing or not understanding?



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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