Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Friday, August 11, 2006 at 11:01:43, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 06/08/11 15:56 (GMT+0200) Henne Vogelsang apparently typed:
> > On Friday, August 11, 2006 at 15:08:43, houghi wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 03:03:51PM +0200, Andreas Vetter wrote:
> 
> >> > > What do others think about this on that list?
> 
> >> > (reply-to should go to the list) + 1
> 
> >> +1
> 
> > Please read
> 
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> > http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
> 
> Now read: http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
> 
> and remember, this is a group discussion list, not a public
> questions/private answers list. There is infrequently any need for
> private replies to posters of such lists. It benefits the group greatly
> to have most answers available to all subscribers. As a consequence, the
> ease with which the exceptions may reply privately or not is simply not
> important.

The part of the "problem" that is about "where should the default answer
go to" is totally debateable i agree. There are good arguments for both
sides and i wouldnt like to decide based on them. 

You and the author of that page forget one thing. Its impossible to set
a reply to if the list adds one. The mailinglist software has to remove
all reply-to headers first and the insert the list one. So if i want
answers only to some mailbox (there are tons of reasons to do so)
reply-to munging makes this impossible.

Henne 

P.S. That the page cites the wrong (old) RFC is there too but oh well..

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Henne Vogelsang,      http://hennevogel.de
"To die. In the rain. Alone."
                   Ernest Hemingway