Re: Apparently irrational behaviour in sort

[The Wanderer]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> The Wanderer wrote:
>
> > I had considered that, but did not have a clear idea of what to add
> > or where to add it... and, now that I've both thought about that
> > further and looked more closely, the copy of the source I have
> > (from Debian's 5.93 source package) does not appear to contain the
> > file from which sort.1 is autogenerated, at least not in any
> > obvious location.
>
> The man page is generated from the --help output, I believe.

...okay, that makes things harder but not impossible. I'll see what I
can do. Would local etiquette require beginning a new thread with the
eventual patch, or would here be fine?

> > (On completely another subject, and quite offtopic, do you happen
> > to know where one would go to complain about problems arising from
> > mailing lists which do not set the Reply-To header to the list
> > address?)
>
> That is an often-discussed topic but the basic summary is that many
> people (including a number of open source projects and the sites that
> host them) feel that this is a feature not a bug.  See also
> <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.  I wouldn't expect
> it to be changed any time soon.

I know - I've come across it, and been given that link, before - but it
*is* causing me problems (mostly in the 'aggravating inconvenience'
category), and since I don't want to go cluttering mailing lists which
actually get things *accomplished* with that sort of offtopic discussion
I was asking where one would properly go to complain. As I more than
half expected, there probably *is* no single place to do that without
being offtopic - which largely obviates the possibility of arguing
against it without being in the position of Bad Guy from the get-go...

(I could rant for a bit about the ways in which the arguments provided
at that link don't apply in my case, but that would be doing exactly
what I've just said I don't want to do. Instead, I'll just ask how
exactly I'm supposed to make sure that one and *only* one copy of any
messages I receive from the list gets sorted into the folder in which I
keep list messages... while simultaneously making sure that any messages
which happen to have been replies to list messages but which are not
sent through the list do *not* wind up in that folder? I ordinarily
filter on the To and CC headers, preempting into the main inbox anything
where one of those matches my E-mail address and then sorting the rest
into folders depending on which list address is matched, but since at
least one of those two will always contain my E-mail address if the
Reply-To header is not used...)

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