Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 03 July 2010 11:55:02 Mick wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2010 15:00:10 Tanstaafl wrote:
> > On 2010-07-01 8:54 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > > I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing
> > > the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address.  Most mailing lists
> > > I use don't do that.
> > > 
> > > It is usually better and prefer the "answer to all" policy
> > 
> > -10 this is plain wrong...
> > 
> > Use a mail client that has 'Reply-To-List' function.
> > 
> > Thunderbird's works very well no, so there is an excellent
> > cross-platform mail client available that implements this
> > functionality...
> > 
> > > as it permit to be notified of an answer without having to track the
> > > whole mailing list.
> > > 
> > > What do you think about changing of policy?
> > 
> > +1, but not for the same reasons...
> > 
> > Before TB implemented Reply-To-List, I preferred lists that munged the
> > Reply-To, but no longer.
> 
> Sometimes I receive a personal email response to a message that I have
> posted to the list.  This seems to happen because the person that kindly
> responded has for some reason cc'd me in the reply.  If I try to reply to
> it the post will not go to the list, but the person that emailed me. 
> Pressing 'l' in kmail just brings up an empty to field.  This seems to
> happen only with some replies.  Will keep an eye out for it to see if it
> is consistent.

OK, just got this baby from Alan:
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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-
>3.6.4 update.
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:37:53 +0200
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Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
References: <i0gk73$kj6$1@dough.gmane.org> 
<20100702095121.76fe5102@core2duo.fabnetwork> 
<201007031230.55562.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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and amidst the headers there's no usual mailing list IDs et al, as is usually 
the case:
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List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
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So, when I enter "l" the response is set directly to Alan, instead of Gentoo 
Users M/L.

Alan, any idea why this is so?  Do you intentionally copy me in your responses 
to the list?
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Regards,
Mick

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