* Philipp Thomas (pthomas@suse.de) [020508 15:19]:
Why doesn't the list manager set Reply-To: accordingly? That'll mean a reply will go only to the list by default.
Please, just think for a while and you'll probably see why that's a bad idea.
Oh my God...this topic has come up again. The last time it came up it got to the point where I was accused of being "no better the Taliban" because of my refusal to insert reply-tos. I'm not interested in going through this again. It never ceases to amaze me how riled up people get about this. Bernd, please go read the suse-linux-e FAQ about this. After that, search through the archives for the usual sort of crap that you are probably used to seeing on mailing lists (vacation messages, fetchmail errors, bounces, luser mail admin errors, etc.) and, guess what? With very very few exceptions(1) you won't find them. I think that's pretty good considering that suse-linux and suse-linux-e are some of the most active mailinglists in the world(2). We do not, nor will we ever as long as I'm in charge of the lists, insert reply-tos(3). I very seriously doubt you have an argument for them that will convince me otherwise but if you think you do send it to me privately so this thread doesn't continue any longer than it has to. Cheers, 1) three in the last three years to be exact, two were intentional "attacks" from someone else and the third was a virsus infested MS exchange server spewing mail at the suse-oracle list, hardly our fault. 2) See http://www.geocrawler.com/. Either suse-linux or LKML are in the lead usually, with suse-linux-e usually in third. 3) We have two exceptions to this: suse-blinux and suse-blinux-d. Both of these lists set a reply-to for the list. These lists are for blind users who read the mail on a Braille pad. It was explained to me that because of some strange interaction of how the Braille display work and pine it's very hard to determine that a mail should be sent to the list and not to the sender. Of course, the obvious suggestion is that the people use a decent mail client like mutt that knows how to handle mailing lists but I didn't want to argue. -- -ckm