[OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

[Sascha Silbe]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:56:22PM +0100, Christopher Woods wrote:

> It seems a little 'unnatural' to me,
To me it's absolutely natural. If I want to reach (only) the author, I 
use "reply". When I want to reach everyone who wrote or got the mail, I 
use "reply to all". That's exactly what I would expect given the names 
of these functions.
Using reply-to munging renders the "reply" function unusable. Without 
manual inspection (i.e. removing the list address from the recipients) I 
cannot reply only to the author (and yes, I do that often enough for it 
to be annoying).

> I've been used to sending mails to a
> mailing list by addressing it directly and relying on the list to send 
> that
> out to other users. This would seem to me to be the most appropriate 
> method,
> regardless of whether it's the 'correct way' - my reasoning for this 
> is
> because some users will not wish to receive instant updates, rather
> receiving their messages in a digest format.
Actually, it's the fault of your MUA if people do get copies they do not 
want. The "Mail-Followup-To" header indicates where to send group 
replies (whereas Reply-To indicates where to send replies intended only 
for the original author). Outlook and some others are well known for not 
supporting this header (besides other things, BTW - I hope you can even 
_read_ this mail because it's PGP/MIME signed).

CU Sascha

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