Thanks for that guys, didn't notice opensuse-features has has been fixed. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Thomas Schmidt <tschmidt@suse.de> wrote:
The reply-to header of mailing lists is a topic dicussed many times (http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html) and the common way of doing it is leaving the reply-to untouched.
I really disagree with his take. First off, the expected behavior of replying in a mailing list, would be to reply to the mailing list. It's the same as bulletin boards and forums. Secondly, he keeps talking of how you lose the ability to reply to the author. He's extremely overblown it. Here's a header from a normal mailing list: From: "xxxxxxx " <xxxxxx@gmail.com> To: kde-devel@kde.org Reply-To: kde-devel@kde.org, xxxxxxx@gmail.com If I I want to reply privately, I hit "reply" and remove the mailing list. Honestly, it couldn't be simpler. I have no idea what he's on about. I've not "lost freedoms" at all.
Some mail clients have a reply to list button, in thunderbird you can use reply-all or use an extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/4455).
In all fairness, if the "mailing list" header is enough information for an email client to reliable determine the mailing list address, it a limitation of mail clients. But like most things, I think it's best to be pragmatic and work around it, and reply-to really is the best solution imo. On the plus side, we might be keeping out some noise of people who can't figure out to add the mailing address to the reply :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org