[josm-dev] Mailing list configuration - reply address

Sebastian Klein bastikln at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 20 00:46:32 BST 2010


Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:52:38 +0200, Sebastian Klein wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> who is managing the mailing list? I would appreciate, if mails sent to
>> the list would have
>>
>> Reply-To: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
>>
>> in the header. This way you can answer more easily to the list.
> 
> Reply-To: is a human-only header, to indicate where replies to the author 
> should go, not where replies to the list should go.  Mailing lists are 
> supposed to set List-Id to indicate the mailing list reply address, which 
> this one does.  Modern mailers (save for gmail, which Google would prefer 
> you use Google Groups for such use) have "Reply-to-List."
> 
> All of OSM's lists are also carried on gmane.org as 
> gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.*

Not the ones I would be interested in: HOT, legal-general, osmf-talk, 
potlatch-dev, ...

> I suggest you investigate your options rather than expecting the lists to 
> do something that doesn't comply with accepted best practices.

Alright, I got it... How comes talk-de is configured like this when it 
is so absolutely dreadful?

I think now I found the perfect solution: Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.  ;)


Sorry for being a little off topic,

Sebastian



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