Jesse Keating wrote:
On Monday 11 December 2006 11:59, David Cantrell wrote:
Do you think you could coax the list manager to change this list's
settings so that its default is for replies to go to the list, as is
appropriate for a discussion list?
Also agreed. I'll see what I can do. No promises and no guarantees
that I won't forget about this 5 seconds after sending the email.
Please no. That's why email clients have "list-reply" buttons/functions.
Until all email clients RH ships support that, it's nonsense. Thus far,
I've not seen a way to use it in any email client I regularly use. RH
does not ship either email client the author mentions.
That document is the opinion of one person. If the RFCs he mentions
support his view, he should mention them, quote them. As he says,
they're lengthy and boring documents.
How often do you want to reply off-list? I almost never do, when I'm on
a discussion list. The functionality I want is the ability to reply
directly to the list most easily.
The "reply to all" he mentions does not work either. It replies to all
recipient addresses in the headers, including the list everyone's on.
And sometimes, to other lists including those the responder's _not_ on,
leading to bounce messages or 'did you really mean that?' messages.
To "fix" this problem, mailman doesn't, by default, send to those who it
thinks have their own private copy. That means that, not only do
recipients get the wrongly-address message, they don't get one that's
correctly-addresses. This limits their ability to filter effectively,
not only into folders as I do, but using whitelists as others do.
n my view, it's perfectly reasonable for a list manager to sa, "I will
set the reply-to to the list because for this list, that's what most
people will want and expect, it's what will work best for my users. If
they want to reply to the author, they can copy the address."
At present, I often find myself editing addresses for the more usual
case, and that's barmy.
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Cheers
John
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