replying to wine-devel?

[King InuYasha]

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 [e-mail].
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.

[Mihai Donțu]

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 [e-mail].

I think it's a client problem. I'm using KMail and hitting 'reply'
always set's the 'To' field to '[e-mail]'.

[James McKenzie]

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 [e-mail].
>
> I think it's a client problem. I'm using KMail and hitting 'reply'
> always set's the 'To' field to '[e-mail]'.

It does not with any of the Wine mailing lists with Thunderbird.

James McKenzie

[James Hawkins]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "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 [e-mail].
> 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 McKenzie]

James Hawkins wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "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 [e-mail].
> > 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

[Kari Hurtta]

James McKenzie  writes
in gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "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 [e-mail].
> > > 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:
> James

/ Kari Hurtta

[King InuYasha]

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 
wrote:
> James McKenzie  writes
> in gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel:
> > James Hawkins wrote:
> > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, "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 [e-mail].
> > > > 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:
> > James
>
> / Kari Hurtta

[Kai Blin]

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 [e-mail].
> 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

[James McKenzie]

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 [e-mail].
> > 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