Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > I don't mean to further heat up this discussion, just one > question: isn't the most reasonable way to reply to a mailing > list posting to the *list*? What sense does it make to reply > only privately to a ML posting? Sure, in some rare cases one may want > to get into contact privately with a poster, but in the vast > majority of cases replies should go to the list. It depends on the list's purpose and policy. > Personally I don't want to have to think about whether I have to > reply to the sender or to the list - I just hit the Reply button > and want the message to go where it makes sense, which in case of > a mailing list is the *list*. Funny, for me it's just the opposite. I decide what I want and then hit the appropriate button, and all I want is that my mail client does what it's told to do. IMHO Nothing is worse than if a private reply accidentally goes to the list. Not inserting Reply-To: means protecting people from making this mistake. (As I mentioned mutt can be configured to ignore Reply-To: in mailing-list postings, so there is no problem for *me*.) > Since I have set up my procmailrc to insert Reply-to headers for > the mailing lists I'm subscribed to, there is no real problem > for me. All I want to avoid is that people send messages to me > privately _and_ to the list. Currently Mailman is configured to avoid dupes. Johannes
