[OSM-talk] no replay-to header at talk

Bruce Cowan bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com
Wed Jul 11 19:13:31 BST 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 08:31 -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:

> And I don't expect to send a message to Dirk-Lüder, Ulf Lamping,
> talk at openstreetmap.org, and nntp:gmane.com.gis.openstreetmap (and a
> growing list of cc's duplicating the entire mailing list as people reply
> in a thread) when replying to this post which was on the list. (which is
> the effect of "reply to all").  Yes, I could use "reply to list" or
> "reply to newsgroup" but let me tell you, those big "reply" buttons are
> a lot easier to hit than buried menu options.  Perhaps it would be
> better if Thunderbird defaulted to "reply to list"/"reply to newsgroup"
> when viewing a list or newsgroup post.  But it doesn't, and I expect
> many would object strongly to that as well.
> 
> Also, I find the constant duplicate messages in my inbox from OSM-talk
> to be somewhat annoying. This is a hazard of using "reply to all"
> 
> Someone wanting to send a private message should not be using the reply
> feature on a mailing list message, so if they send to a list that's
> their fault.
> 
> In case it wasn't clear, I'm in favor of munging the reply-to header.
> 
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
> 

Thank god for Evolution's "Reply to List".
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan at dsl.pipex.com>





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