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Fellow software haters, may I just register my seething contempt for any mail client which will let a user [Reply] to a mailing list digest? Additionally -- though slightly off-topic --, I need to express the same contempt for the idiots who do so. (One particularly bad apple keeps replying to the digest, *top posting*, *without* culling *anything*. I'm already subscribed to the non-digest version of the list -- thanks very much for also supplying me with the digest, and shoveling extra copies of everything into the archive, dimwit.) And a pox on the mailing list software which generates such a bloody useless format as a flattened digest in a single mail, which makes it impossible for dimwitted users to reply to anything in a sensible fashion. Of course that alone won't do -- the extra brain damage of accepting posts from users who are subscribed to the digest only is inevitable. Digests suck, mailing list software sucks, mail clients suck, users suck. May bit rot, pest and cholera befall all of them. With cordial malice, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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