[OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

[John Smith]

2009/9/3 Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com>:
> I know that at least KMail has this feature. If there's a list-id in
> the header it will offer you a 'Reply to all', 'Reply to author' and
> 'Reply to list' option and default to the latter. Given this, it works
> fine on all these OSM mailing lists.

Most people don't use kmail, nor any other mail client that handles
list replying properly.

> However, GMail doesn't which is frankly stupid and annoying.
> Especially since it default to replying to _just_ the author of the
> email and not the list at all.

And no greasemonkey script either. And the greasemonkey scripts that
do exist to do reply to all don't work anyway.

> So, really, this is a problem with the email clients being stupid and
> the mailing list seems to be set up correctly. The email header's

We have to deal witht he reality of the situation, no commonly used
mail client handles list headers properly, so it's pointless to argue
this is a good reason to keep the status quo, in fact it's a good
reason to set the reply to to the list since most mail clients don't
handle it properly, and most new comers don't know they have to hit
reply to all.

And you sent this to me directly, was the intentional or because the
email client didn't reply to the list?