Fri, 06 Aug 2004, by suse-linux-e.suselists@danny.teleologic.net:
Richard wrote regarding 'RE: [SLE] reply-to settings' on Fri, Aug 06 at 14:13:
Whelp, better get my few cents in too, while the gettin's good.
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Its the new audience that I would be more concerned with. Compared to all of the other lists out there, it appears a "strange" convention and just reinforces the perception of many that working with Linux and Unix is a trial in frustration and is counterintuitive. Forget that fact, that this statement applies to all software when you are new to it - this is a perception of many.
If everyone wants to have the Reply-to: set on messages to this list, they can always set it themselves. Good mailers do allow the concept of aliases or other methods of setting custom headers based on some criteria. If everyone really wants Reply-to:, they can set it themselves. The list serve admin won't stomp on that, since it's following the good practice of making minimal changes to messages.
Anyway, I doubt that most newbies are determining whether they'll use SuSE or not on how easy it is to use the mailing list. Subscribing alone is a prety big pain if you've just got one question - what's a little more pain in having to pay attention to the reply address? :) [..]
Using 'L' instead of 'r' to reply helps to remind me that I'm not just replying to an 'ordinary' email, but that what I write gets (maybe/hopefully) read by a bunch of people. It 's far too easy to forget that rants, namecalling etc. will be archieved and making an ass of oneself is easier than being a 'good' netizen. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.1 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel 2.6.5 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +