>I'm happy to announce that we have just upgraded this list to Lyris, the
>list software which will carry us into the next generation of virtual
>communities. It has a number of built-in features to make your life easier,
>and is fully extensible so that we can write our own custom solutions to
>meet your needs.
To quote a somewhat famous hacker: "your software stinks and so do you".
This list software stretches the boundaries of reason and Internet
compliance. It's going to have to be heavily hacked on, or perhaps
trashed altogether, in order to really have my vote.
- - Message-ID's are getting munged illegally. The RHS of the message-id
is _my_ domain, not yours! Keep your grubby hands off! Despite
what other mail systems do, rewriting different messages for each sender
is _wrong_. I can understand the qmail-like argument of delivery
speed, but here are other ways to make it easy for the user to unsubscribe.
- - Reply-To: is set to the list, making personal replies impossible for
many people without manual intervention. Get rid of Reply-To: and
use Mail-Followup-To:. It's not an official standard (yet) but at
least it's a correct solution.
- - The silly Subject prefix [list-maintainers] appears to have been axed,
thankfully. Don't bring us all down just because people have crippled
software that can't filter except only on things like "From", "To",
and "Subject".
- - It looks like the silly footer was axed too.
- - Don't _even_ get me started at the patently illegal and utterly anti-social
"let's substitute anything that looks like an email address in square
brackets" mess! God, are the people who make this thing have any stuff
between their ears?
I'm also PGP signing this message as a test too see if will even pass
messages relatively cleanly.
- --Dave
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http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/
barr@cis.ohio-state.edu
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