From: A. Pagaltzis Date: 22:30 on 01 Jun 2006 Subject: Brain-dead trouble ticket mailer code Dear trouble ticket system programmers, the In-Reply-To header is there for a reason. (So what if your system can accept comments via venues other than email? If an incoming email causes you to eventually generate an outgoing email, then here's my Message-Id for you to keep track of. I don't care what happens inbetween. Figure it out.) Annoyedly yours,
From: A. Pagaltzis Date: 17:44 on 18 Nov 2005 Subject: Mailing list digests Fellow software haters, may I just register my seething contempt for any mail client which will let a user [Reply] to a mailing list digest? Additionally -- though slightly off-topic --, I need to express the same contempt for the idiots who do so. (One particularly bad apple keeps replying to the digest, *top posting*, *without* culling *anything*. I'm already subscribed to the non-digest version of the list -- thanks very much for also supplying me with the digest, and shoveling extra copies of everything into the archive, dimwit.) And a pox on the mailing list software which generates such a bloody useless format as a flattened digest in a single mail, which makes it impossible for dimwitted users to reply to anything in a sensible fashion. Of course that alone won't do -- the extra brain damage of accepting posts from users who are subscribed to the digest only is inevitable. Digests suck, mailing list software sucks, mail clients suck, users suck. May bit rot, pest and cholera befall all of them. With cordial malice,
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