I demand that Nico Sabbi may or may not have written... > Il giorno ven, 02/01/2009 alle 22.03 +0200, Anssi Hannula ha scritto: >> Nico Sabbi wrote: >>> BTW, for years I asked to insert the correct "reply-to" header in this >>> *fuckingly broken* mailing list (to send replies to the list rather >>> than to the poster), but not a single time I received an answer by His >>> Majesty the ML administrator. >>> Can someone fix this issue, please? If not, can the admin at least >>> explain *why* he/she wants to keep it broken? Please, no speculations: >>> just facts. >> This is the standard practice on kernel development lists. >> See e.g. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > yes, that link was sent to me other times; I disagree completely with all > that it says, especially because if you are sending messages to a list it's > perfectly reasonable to expect the replies to belong to the list, at least > by default. Replies may be addressed to the original poster, but that is > surely the exception, not the norm. How I see it: follow up to the list, reply to the poster. But then I, and the software which I normally use (and older software which I've used), treat them as something like "newsgroups via email". More widespread usage of Mail-{Followup,Reply}-To would be good. -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. A visit to a fresh place will bring strange work. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
