[OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

[Mike N.]

> 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.

  The current communications methods are very awkward, particularly when 
participating in more than one subject.   The amount of time to create a new 
password and sign up is absurd compared to a more typical single sign-on web 
forum based setup.

   Some web forums allow email-based communications for those who need that. 
And for those modern kids, it allows RSS feeds, quickly adding new forum 
subject categories as needed, and rapid searching and archived thread 
following rather than relying on Google.