25 Mar
2022
25 Mar
'22
5:41 p.m.
Quoting Roberto Leibman (roberto(a)leibman.net):
We've had this discussion before. I remember good
arguments pro and
good arguments against. I think we decided that the list owner gets
to decide, and the rest of us live with it.
Fortunately, mutt automatically ignores "munging", so it doesn't hurt
me, either way. It hurts only the people who repeatedly get surprised
by their very private side-discussions, that they intended to send
off-list, getting forced into public.
Some things are matters of opinion, but this is not: IETF settled the
notorious controversy 21 years ago, ruling in two RFCs that "munging" is
inappropriate, and introducing the List-Post: header to designate to
software the method for posting to a mailing list.
At that time, Neale Pickett explained briefly, in plain English, how the
technical problem got resolved, and why it's a dead argument. Please see.
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-still-harmful.html