On February 1, 2009 09:00:54 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
jdd wrote:
Kai Ponte a écrit :
Frans de Boer wrote:
Question: are you also wondering why the mailing lists on opensuse.org not automatically insert the right forum address as an reply address?
Now, I must manually change the reply address when I send something.
Unfortunately, the list is broken and the admins feel it better to leave it in that state. Some email programs - like KMail - do a reply-to list automatically sometimes. At other times, there is a reply-to-list feature. I am running Thunderbird now and don't have this feature (I did but it borked the attachments.)
yes you have - or can have. Thunderbird now have a plugin to do this (don't worry, I just discovered this yesterday :-)
jdd
Actually, I fixed it using another method.
However, I prefer on mailing lists - something I've been using since the '90s - that the default is reply to list, not to the individual. That must be a listserver setting.
It is. And none of the listserve developers actually recommend munging the reply-to header to the list address, at least in part because doing so removes your ability to reply only to the sender. Before I operated half a dozen listserves, I too thought it would be easier for me as a user to just hit reply. It's not. It leads to people inadvertently sending emails to the list instead of privately, it removes function for many users, and it creates problems for listserve administrators. For a more definitive explanation see the post by one of the Mailman developers at http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html In short, those running the listserve actually do know what they're doing, and there are good reasons for not munging the reply-to header to the list address. Bob -- Robert (Bob) Smits bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org