🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <see-below-2807980057080001@dynamic22.pm01.mv.best.com>,
Matthew Vaughan <see-below@not-my-address.com> wrote:
>In article <rone.MonJul27151110PDT1998.10139@ennui.org>,
>rone+usenet@ennui.org (karmic acid) wrote:
>> The point of having addresses in news was to allow email replies.  By
>> munging, you are breaking this feature.  
>I think this response is way out of proportion to what's actually
>happening. I am only making it marginally more difficult, not in any way
>"breaking" it.

You may think it's "marginal", since all you have to do is set your
mail in your newsreader and away you go, but it takes me as much time
to go through my daily ration of spam as it does to fix the address of
one mungee with whom i feel it is imperative to reply to.

>> This should be considered Wrong Behavior.  
>Hmm. I keep hearing this kind of thing, and it kind of scares me. Are you
>the same people that opposed the Communications Decency Act and other
>efforts to control internet usage? You have a funny way of dictating how
>others shall behave when it suits you...

OK, cool it with the bleeding-heart "help help i'm being repressed"
language.  I'm going to make it real simple: the From header is
intended to represent the CORRECT email address of the poster.  By
putting in something other than your email address, you are misusing
it.  Therefore, your behavior is WRONG.

>I'm not saying munging is the best or only way to do things, just that it
>does exactly what I want it to, and does it perfectly. I feel a bit odd
>that you good folks are taking such strenuous efforts to convince me that
>there's something wrong with me for having those particular views, or that
>it doesn't actually work, when I know that it does, or that your points
>(all of which are valid, and all of which I considered before doing this)
>should be more important to me than my own priorities.

The point is, rather, not to convince the pig to sing, but to prevent
other people from becoming pigs.

rone
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