I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... > Lucian Muresan wrote: [snip] >> 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 ;-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland | s zap,tartarus,org | RISC OS | Toon Army | @ | We've got Souness, we don't want him Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.
