Terminal title in taskbar?

Auke Kok sofar at lunar-linux.org
Sun Nov 21 16:54:38 CET 2004


Paul Bucalo wrote:

>On Sun Nov 21  7:44 , Auke Kok <sofar at lunar-linux.org> sent:
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>>The answer is more simple. If you set the 'reply-to' address then the 
>>mailinglist is setup to honour that and adds the xfce listaddress TO 
>>that list. I noticed an enormous amount of people pass a reply-to 
>>address to their e-mails and subsequently all will get double e-mails 
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>>from people replying. (and this list includes Xan, Paul Bucalo, Chris 
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>>Green and a tonload of others).
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>>The Reply-to address should never be used unless you *want* to be CC'd. 
>>Please set your mail client so that it does not use the Reply-To 
>>Address. Using the Reply-To address is never needed for most e-mails anyway.
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>>Sofar
>>xfce.org listadmin ;^)
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>Actually, Auke, it is *not* that simple. Some Web-based email clients *do not*
>allow the user to change this feature. Spymail is one of them. I have no control
>over what my "Reply-To" says. In essense, you are giving me the choice of leaving
>this as it is and offending some or going out and finding a more 'socially
>accepted' Web-based account that doesn't lock this feature out from my changing it. 
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>Yes, I do get double-emails from those who reply to my posts. I can live with
>that. It's not a lot of work at my end to delete the extras from those who reply
>to me. What would be a *better* solution for *me* is to have your list server not
>block my ISPs because of my LAN's lack of FQDN or because *it* feels that
>blocking my ISPs's domains is the proper way to ward off Spammers. I have
>accepted that the good of the many has to outweigh the good of the one. I am not
>asking that you change your list server's policies, nor am I complaining about
>double-replies. If I could change the "Reply-To" I would. Since I can't, are you
>now asking me to abandon this account and go out and find another one?
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nope, you are free to use outlook express or any other wonderfull e-mail 
client that you prefer. I honestly don't care.

sofar







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