replying to wine-devel?
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
On Thursday 06 December 2007, King InuYasha wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org.
I think it's a client problem. I'm using KMail and hitting 'reply' always set's the 'To' field to 'wine-devel(a)winehq.org'. -- Mihai Donțu
Mihai Donțu wrote:
On Thursday 06 December 2007, King InuYasha wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org.
I think it's a client problem. I'm using KMail and hitting 'reply' always set's the 'To' field to 'wine-devel(a)winehq.org'.
It does not with any of the Wine mailing lists with Thunderbird. James McKenzie
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "King InuYasha" <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
You're supposed to reply-all. -- James Hawkins
James Hawkins wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "King InuYasha" <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
You're supposed to reply-all.
Most mailing lists have the reply-to field set for to mailing list address. James
James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)sprintpcs.com> writes in gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel:
James Hawkins wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "King InuYasha" <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
You're supposed to reply-all.
Most mailing lists have the reply-to field set for to mailing list address.
There seems to have List-Post: <mailto:wine-devel(a)winehq.org>
James
/ Kari Hurtta
Hmm... Well, I use the Gmail interface sometimes and Thunderbird as well. But apparently I missed the Reply to All button was there, which pretty much makes it Cc to wine-devel. It should probably be noted that if you want to mail the whole list, select reply to all. Replying will only mail to the author. On 06 Dec 2007 12:04:18 +0200, Kari Hurtta <hurtta+gmane(a)siilo.fmi.fi> wrote:
James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)sprintpcs.com> writes in gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel:
James Hawkins wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "King InuYasha" <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
You're supposed to reply-all.
Most mailing lists have the reply-to field set for to mailing list address.
There seems to have
List-Post: <mailto:wine-devel(a)winehq.org>
James
/ Kari Hurtta
On Thursday 06 December 2007 02:05:59 King InuYasha wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
The reason is explained in http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html In short, the downside to only replying to the author by accident is pretty small compared to mistakenly replying to the whole list with something intended just for the author. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
Kai Blin wrote:
On Thursday 06 December 2007 02:05:59 King InuYasha wrote:
I have noticed some unusual behavior in the wine-devel mailing list compared to others (e.g. fedora's, etc.). Wine's wine-devel mailing list does not automatically set the reply to wine-devel(a)winehq.org. Why is that? If other mailing lists do so, how come Wine's doesn't? Personally, I find myself making a mistake sometimes and not adding in the wine-devel part because I am used to seeing it automatically set. If I remember how emails are set up, isn't there a hidden field called reply-to? AFAICT, other mailing lists either override or rewrite this field and replace it with the email address of the mailing list.
The reason is explained in http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
In short, the downside to only replying to the author by accident is pretty small compared to mistakenly replying to the whole list with something intended just for the author.
You are correct as this can prove fatal to the sender if you intended only to send back to the original sender rather than the entire list. I was removed from one list after I forgot to change the intended receipant from the list to a single person. Thus, I will reverse my original opinion and state that requiring the use of the 'Reply to All' button may delay or even remove the desire to reply. Thank you for this informational link and why using the 'reply-to' is very dangerous. James
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