Il giorno lun, 27/03/2006 alle 13.06 -0500, Jerry Feldman ha scritto:
Over the past 15+ years I have been running lists, we have had numerous discussions on this, as we have here.
I see :-)
There are 2 reasons why setting the reply-to to the list is not desirable: 1. Mail loops. Occasionally when a user sets the vacation switch, with reply-to set back to the list, you can get an unending loop of vacation messages where the list admin usually needs to remove that user.
This, usually, is done with a "work" mail account. And i do think think that here many of us aren't here *for working* reasons {i mean, if i am a SuSE customer i have a real help desk to referr to}. In this 5 years and a half of internet that i've done I've seen _zero_ times the use of such a "responder". And when i've seen this option it was always included in proprietary clients.
2. Many times replies are intended to the poster and not the list. By not setting reply-to, the listserv tends to keep the number of poster specific replies down.
This, also, i see happening rarely. If i'm into a list i want people to read what i have to say. If i want to say "shut this bull***t up" to someone i can do in public AND privately, in second tense (it's a corret way of saying, right?)
Also many email clients are not list-aware so that users can easily reply directly back to the list.
So basically "you" are saying that nearly every on OSS email client aside form Mutt and Sylpheed (IIRC) is badly developed ... I'll see how to fill a bugzilla. And hope someone listens (but hey, Mozilla & co are older that my internet experience, why they did never managed that ?) I am *accepting* how this list {and 3 others i'm subscribed into - over a bunch of 30} is set. But i don't like it, and i do not like the motivation "you" are addresing. Cheers, -n -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://koolinus.wordpress.com http://www.koolinus.net [ITA] powered by SUSE Linux 10.0