Re: Mailing list changes

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:16:01 +0200
Message-Id: <16BB10F2-08E8-40C9-84FD-80176D84E20C@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2018-03-28, at 10:42, smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
> 
>> No! It *isn't* being set by the user.  That's the whole point of this argument.  It is being set by the mailing list manager program. It's being set to the mailing list's address, not the author's -- optional, alternate -- address.  That's wrong.  That's why Thunderbird was changed to ignore that abuse.
> 
> Once you send an email to a mailing list, the user becomes the mailing list itself.
> 
> Allowing users to hijack mailing lists by having replies to emails sent directly back to them rather than to the list is abuse and thunderbird should stop enabling this fragrant abusive practise.
> 
> The Thunderbird developers have a disconnect with reality.

Actually it stinks like pushing their ideological agenda down the throats of their unsuspecting users. A disgusting, repulsive practice in the best style of the golden times of Microsoft®[*].

SCNR.

* - currently also Apple and others
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Received on 2018-03-28 12:00:02

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