On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:30:04 -0500, David Elliott dfe@tgwbd.org wrote:
On 2001.12.09 17:15 Oliver Sampson wrote: [SNIP]
<ot> Why is the default behavior for the list to have replies go only to the sender and not to the list? </ot>
Because that would be ridiculous. The only way to really accomplish that is to add a Reply-To which means that it then becomes impossible to easily reply directly to the author.
Well, it's not rediculous. And it's not rediculous when you consider that *every other* list (save one) to which I'm subscribed has the list as the default reply-to. The assumption is that if it's important enough to be asked in public, then the answer should be public also. Why should the assumed answer be private? I'm in a habit of replying to mail, not replying-all to mail, and when I reply to mail on this list, I find that I end up sending it twice. (My assumption is that I'm a typical listserv subscriber.) Rarely, do I want to send an email off-list. Do you (and the majority of the members here) send so many off-list emails in response to on-list emails that having the default reply-to for the list, not be the list itself?
Hey, it was just a question.
If you don't add it then all you need to do is hit "Reply All" which will cause it to send it To: the original author, and Cc: it to the list.
So assuming you have your mail filters setup such that mail which went through the list goes into the wine-devel mailbox and other mail is processed as usual then you will get two copies: one directly to you in your inbox and one in the list. Personally I prefer this because I can then reply directly to any pertinent things before I go reading the rest of the list.
Like this:
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail/incoming
:0:wine/announce.lock
- ^Sender:.*wine-announce-admin@winehq.com
wine/announce
:0:wine/cvs.lock
- ^Sender:.*wine-cvs-admin@winehq.com
wine/cvs
:0:wine/devel.lock
- ^Sender:.*wine-devel-admin@winehq.com
wine/devel
:0:wine/patches.lock
- ^Sender:.*wine-patches-admin@winehq.com
wine/patches
That is part of my .procmailrc file which will filter on the sender line (mail that has gone through the list servers). Note that I do not filter on To or CC line as is stated on the website because then anyone who sent mail directly to me but also cced it to the list, well, it goes into the list, which defeats the whole benefit of getting two copies of the mail.
Hmm, come to think of it, maybe someone should put those lines up on the WineHQ website as an alternative method, or in place of the current method. IIRC the website is in CVS, would someone want me to send a patch for this?
-Dave
I find filtering on the List-Id: field to be the most accurate and unambiguous.
List-Id: Wine Developer's List <wine-devel.winehq.com>
Oliver
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