I agree to the fact that it is smart. However, I suggest that people are informed about this (maybe unusual) behaviour in their confirmation letter. Can it be done? On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 13:46 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Matej Tyc on 8/17/2008 12:06 PM: > > btw: Posts have "wrong" header in the way that when one replies to them, one will ommit the mailing list. > > I have received replies that went only to me and I made that mistake as well. > > Other mailing lists usually behave differently... > > So what do you think of this behavior? > > The current behavior is intentional, and is generally the behavior of most > of the GNU lists. See this link: > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html. The idea is that you > should get in the habit of hitting 'reply-to-all' if you want to reply to > the list; if the sender is also on the list, then they can manipulate the > Reply-to of their original post, or use the list subscription settings to > avoid receiving duplicates. I'm not likely to change the list behavior > any time soon. > > While we're on the topic of list behavior, it is preferable to avoid > top-posting. It is easier to read an isolated mail in the archive if it > contains appropriate context in reading order, rather than replies on top > of the text being responded to. > > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkiogCsACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBhBwCgrVjxOn089VHG2MjOgmZECzml > V78An2GScUjAx2Oa+VQVbhCX8pTOUeMt > =skY9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
