[josm-dev] Mailing list configuration - reply address

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Stephan Knauss wrote:

> Florian Lohoff wrote:
>>  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
>
> Off-topic can be fun ;)
>
> Honestly: With the reply-to list add-On for Thunderbird I don't miss 
> anything. It should be included in standard distribution.

This is such a strange discussion, which comes up from time to time on 
various mailinglists and everybody is convinced his opinion is right. 
Actually I see no big difference between both and prefer the Reply-To-List 
default which is equal to the way usenet postings are done (probably I'm 
too old, as I used usenet long before mailinglists :-).

My mails have a Reply-To-List always (because I much more often got double 
mails due to unexperienced authors than I got private mails over lists) 
and until now the "But-I-Cant-Send-To-Author" fraction never complained.
When you send private mails as answer to mailing-list mails you have 
to check the target address in any case, as like me the author may have 
choosen to set the Reply-To himself, so most of the arguments are invalid. 
But I don't think this will ever stop the discussions and the websites 
related to these.

And BTW it is possible to configure mail programs, so they automatically 
know what to do. I have a "Reply-To-List" for all my mailinglists, whether 
they use modified headers or not ;-) Since I use that my rate of false 
"private to list" messages (or the other way round) has dropped 
significantly.

Ciao
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