Re: "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful (was: Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean)

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:13:16 -0600
Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 05:49:30PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:24:58 -0600
> > Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
> > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean
> > > Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:34:14AM +0200, Thanasis wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > In my system /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source
> > > > is a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`  
> > > 
> > > What does that guys sig say????
> > > 
> > > - List replies preferred.
> > 
> > Where does it say that? By whom?
> 
> His name is Duncan, iirc.

Duncan is absent in this sub thread.

> > Thus, the simple and safe assumption that the person is not
> > subscribed.
> 
> When we ass*u*me... Why not ass*u*me someone reads and replies
> because they're subscribed to the list? And if not, they let you know:
> CC me, I'm not on the list.  <-- canonical

Because asking a question on a mailing list does not equal wanting to
receive everything else on that mailing list.

> You've beaten me up with your opinion and ass*u*mption before. Why
> hijack a thread to do so again?

You mean your off-topic response that I reply to? Can we get on-topic?

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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