Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:21:01 EST
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On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:53:52 -0800 Joe Moore <[log in to unmask]> said:
>I just spent a minute with it. It REALLY looks good. An option to reply
>to <from:> or <list:> addresses would dress it up even more.
We decided NOT to do that as it will most likely result in a lot of
"junk" postings. A few months ago I started receiving occasional messages
that would say "Geez, get real you stupid moron!", or then "Hey right on
dude, these guys are just a bunch of *beep* losers!" These would come
from people I'd never heard of, without any reference to anything I'd
remember seeing recently. Half of the time the origin address would be
invalid and I wouldn't be able to reply to ask what they were talking
about. Sometimes I'd get a bounce saying no such user. Then I started to
detect a pattern and eventually I figured that someone must have put a
web interface with mailto tags to the archives of some list I am a member
of, or more likely was a member of several years ago when I still had
time to post things :-) Anyway, I don't think that inviting people to
chime in with little out of context comments now and then is a good idea
at all. If people have something meaningful to say, they can spend the
extra 5 seconds to compose a new mail message. There just isn't enough
context in a mailto tag to promote an intelligent, responsible dialog.
>I will be interested to see what the options are if the archives are on
>a host that is not set up for web access.
The archives have to be on the same host, or at least directly accessible
(LAN, NFS, etc).
Eric
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