I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
Lucian Muresan wrote:
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It's simply a pain to follow such a thread when the topic changes all over. Such a pity that it's not possible for the author of a message to check some flag preventing replies, I'm almost sure Klaus would have turned on such a switch on these anouncements.
Well, maybe the "Followup-to:" header could help here, but I'm not sure whether there is one that prevents any replies to a message. "Followup-to: poster" explicitly directs replies to the original author
... in newsgroup context.
In list context, Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To are useful, but support for these isn't (yet?) sufficiently widespread. (The software which I'm using supports M-F-T but not M-R-T.)
- but that's not what I would want. Are there other keywords for this that
could achieve the wanted goal?
I don't believe that there is one. Even if there were, it would have to be a "should" rather than a "must".
Plus: I'm not sure whether a "Followup-to:" header would correctly make it through the mailing list software. [...]
It does. It just doesn't necessarily work.
@Klaus: want to try including a notice in every such original announcement, asking people to start new threads with specific problems related to the new release?
Do you really believe this would change anything? ;-)
No. OTOH, some carefully-crafted flames will certainly help ;-)
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