On Saturday 28 July 2007, Daniel Brown wrote: > As a relatively-new contributor to this list (read: under 2 > years), I realize that I have no business requesting a change, but > I'll breech etiquette and hope for the best. > > Can we update the filters on the list to have the reply-to address > header marked to the php-general address? The reason I ask this is > because, when people are on vacation (such as Juan is now), we receive > responses to our personal addresses. Secondly, we have to continually > "Reply All" the messages, which - though it's not a problem - can > cause issues when attempting to respond to those "[URGENT]" replies. > Third, our addresses are included in gmane, et al, which is an > inherent risk --- I understand. > > Maybe it's just the ramblings of someone attempting to read and > type on a limited-bandwidth mobile device while bored due to delays in > mass-transit facilities (here, read: I'm fucking exhausted, and yes, I > dropped the "F" bomb). In either case, it's not conducive to a new > contributor to have to weed through "vacation response" messages each > time he/she replies to the list. > > </rant> Amen! A public discussion list (such as this one) really should have Reply-To set correctly. All of the arguments against Reply-To headers apply only to the 1% of the population still using mail clients written in the early 90s. I'd love to not get double copies of every bloody reply to every thread I'm involved in. It's just a waste of electrons and of my time. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
