Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote:
> I hit "reply all" which takes care of mailing lists. If your mail client 
> can't handle duplicates, perhaps it needs to come back out of the 80s. 

You're assuming that the address I'm sending from is the same as the
address I'm receiving funsec mail at.  It's not.

And I have a quite efficient mail infrastructure, thanks to procmail and
mutt (which is a superb mail client and one I highly recommend to anyone
serious about security), but I'll admit that in this particular instance,
that setup relies on the courtesy of others not to send extra copies when
clearly none are needed.  (In case it's not clear: those copies will arrive
at different times and only one will carry the RFC 2369 headers germane to
the list, thus only one will trip the procmail rule specific to "funsec"
-- which of course is based on those headers.)

And yes, I've made this mistake too -- of replying on- and off-list.
I'm always chagrined when I realize that in my haste I managed to
waste recipients' valuable time and resources.

> Also, I do not often reply in top-posting, even though in some cases it 
> is the preferable way of doing things.

<shrug> I've never seen such a case.  Oh, it's sometimes appropriate
to include introductory comments before quoted material, but responses
to that material should also follow.  This is especially true in
case of nested quotes/responses, where inverting the order can make
it very difficult to ascertain who said what.


So fine, I'll go back and find your message and re-read it.

I may even take off my curmudgeon hat, briefly.  Depends on how well I'm
doing in the NCAA tourney pool, which so far may be best described in
approximately the same terms as Samuel L. Jackon's airline situational
assessment.  #%@(*&$ Illinois!

---Rsk
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