On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Collin Kidder wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Mikkel is right, every other well-organized mailing list I've ever
been on handles things the sensible way he suggests, but everybody
on his side who's been on lists here for a while already knows
this issue is a dead horse. Since I use the most advanced e-mail
client on the market I just work around that the settings here are
weird, it does annoy me a bit anytime I stop to think about it
though.
I think this is the crux of the problem --- if I subscribed to
multiple
email lists, and some have "rely" going to the list and some have
"reply" going to the author, I would have to think about the right
reply
option every time I send email.
Fortunately, every email list I subscribe to and manage behaves
like the
Postgres lists.
I find it difficult to believe that every list you subscribe to
behaves as the Postgres list does. Not that I'm doubting you, just
that it's difficult given that the PG list is the ONLY list I've
ever been on to use Reply as just replying to the author. Every
other list I've ever seen has reply as the list address and requires
Reply All to reply to the original poster. Thus, I would fall into
the category of people who have to think hard in order to do the
correct thing when posting to this list.
I have the same experience, only PG list seems to behave different.
In my humble opinion I feel that I am subscribed to the list (It also
says on the bottom Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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back to the list where I am subscribed at, in in my opinion the source
is the list aswell (that's why I am getting it in the first place).
I've checked and I can't even find an option to make Thunderbird
(the client I use in windows) reply to the list properly with the
reply button (it just cannot be set that way.) You must use Reply
All. You might say that that makes Thunderbird crippled but I see it
more as a sign that nobody outside of a few fussy RFC worshipping
types would ever want the behavior of the Postgre list. Yes, I'll
have to live with the current behavior. Yes, it's an RFC standard.
But, even after having heard the arguments I'm not convinced that
this list's behavior is desirable. YMMV.
mail.App is crippled aswell.. I think I will install Mutt again for
convenience --- just kidding...
Ries
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