Fwd: Re: Q? system wide variables

[Oliver Stieber]

Thought I should send this to winedev as well, is it
just me, or is the reply address set to the sender and
not winedev?
> --- Mike Hearn  wrote:
> > Yes, the registry is fine though if you are going
>
> to
> > detect this at
> > startup it may be worth making it volatile.
> >
> > I'm not sure it makes sense to have a config
>
> option
> > here. How many people
> > will think to adjust it?
>
> Well, initially I can't won't be able to detect the
> value since I don't known of any other way that
> talking to the video card and requesting one of it's
> registers. (I've got the Matrox g400  code somewhere
> on an old HDD written in djgcc for dos about 5 years
> ago) Transgaming make this user configurable so I
> shouldn't imagine it's an 'easy' task to detect the
> top ten cards.
>
> It could also be handy for stubborn applications
> when
> I want to lie and don't care how slow the
> application
> runs (or if it slips into AGP instead of
> on-videoboard
> ram) you can get something for windows that fakes a
> lot of directX functions so that you can play games
> that must have pixelshaders 2.0 on older cards just
> missing some effects.
>
> I would send the link, but I can't remember right
> now
> and I'm just off down the pub.
>
> I'll start by getting everthing to talk to the
> registry and work on the volile bit when we have
> some
> detection code.

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[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:10:33 +0000, Oliver Stieber wrote:
> Thought I should send this to winedev as well, is it
> just me, or is the reply address set to the sender and
> not winedev?

It's not just you. It's an annoying default that routinely causes
flamewars on every list that uses it. The mailing list software lets you
set the reply-to address to the list very easily but comes with a link to
a stupid lecture basically saying that people with horribly broken legacy
mail clients may be slightly inconvenienced by it. I read it when I set up
my first mailing lists and wasn't impressed at all.

Anyway, I doubt it'll change anytime soon, you just have to get used to
hitting the "reply to all" button instead.

For some reason setting Reply-To to the list never causes flamewars <grumble>

thanks -mike

[Lionel Ulmer]

> For some reason setting Reply-To to the list never causes flamewars <grumble>

Oh yes it would, believe me (at least I would fan the flame a little bit :-) ).

Lionel (who really prefers not to have the Reply-To set to the list)