Re: [opensuse-buildservice] replying to messages in this mailinglist

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:01:15AM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:

Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:03, aapgorilla wrote:

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Hi I am a member of several mailinglists and for the other lists I am a member of whenever I reply to a message it gets send to the mailinglist, however whenever I reply to message from this list the message gets send to the author of the message only.

On this list you must hit reply-all. The person that sent the message you are responding to will get the message twice, but it is the only easy way to do it because the list owners refuse to fix this problem.

Well, your mail client is not suitable for professional use then. Good ones have a list reply function and even better ones set and honor Mail-Followup-To¹.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

Please see also http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_munging and learn to use your MUA. Some of them come with a manual. Some even offer man pages. ;) Looks like we must create a dedicated wiki page at http://en.openSUSE.org/ for this topic as it is coming back again and again. Next we should add a (well hidden) header to each mail pointing people to this article. :) Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany