[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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