Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Manu]

On 19 February 2018 at 21:16, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/19/2018 03:52 AM, Manu wrote:
>>
>> On 18 Feb. 2018 10:25 pm, "Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d" <
>> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/18/2018 7:52 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>>
>>> Well, it's also the world's most inconsistant and statndards-disregarding.
>>> We're talking 1990's MS-level behavior here. It's *always* causing trouble
>>> for something or another.
>>>
>>
>> And the great thing about NNTP is that the user gets to choose the client.
>> Not the server. If you don't like the way your client behaves, use another
>> one.
>>
>>
>> Except in this case it's you that doesn't like the way my mail client
>> behaves.
>>
>
> Because your mail client is BROKEN.

1. The mailing list shouldn't mail out peoples personal email
addresses. I shouldn't have had Walter's personal email address
anywhere near the reply-to field. All I did was click reply. If I was
subscribed to a mailing list that sent my private email address to all
recipients, I'd be very angry (I guess I am!).
2. It's completely normal for email clients (not just gmail) to send
the text + html version of emails. Outlook does it too. If the mailing
list/newsgroup synchroniser doesn't want the html it receives from
email clients, it could easily truncate it, and the problem would
cease to exist.

> Then petition *Google* to fix their shitty fucking software. You've already been told it has fuck all to do with NNTP.
>
> Seriously, why the fuck would ANYONE think that by relying on Google software they're somehow NOT being dragged along by the ear on Google's every whim and misstep. Christ, we've already been through all this SAME EXACT shit in the 90's with Microsoft, let's try actually *learning* from it and move on.

I'm not sure there's anything wrong with gmail here. It replied to
Walter's personal email because it was in the email header... that's
the bug, not my mail client. I'd say it's a critical privacy violation
bug too.
And emailing in HTML is the normal kind. Setting to plaintext is the
un-usual configuration, and it's not a gmail/outlook bug that I don't
change the mode. (it may be a gmail bug that the setting resets
occasionally though, I'm not sure why it resets from time to time)


If we don't want people to subscribe to the mailing list and use their
email clients to interact with the newsgroup, then don't offer the
mailing list: http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/digitalmars-d
Just remove and disable it, and people won't use email clients. But
don't say it's invalid for people to use the interface provided in the
usual way with normal/overwhelming-common email clients in default
settings...