From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUgnD-0000gJ-Ig for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:00:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEBAAE065E; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blingymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF4AE065E for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (smtp.media-brokers.com [70.43.81.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blingymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63EB5CD5D for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2DF0EA.6090308@libertytrek.org> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:00:10 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply References: <20100702005433.GK9344@vidovic> In-Reply-To: <20100702005433.GK9344@vidovic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a2769ddb-8930-4947-a75c-d42d572ed595 X-Archives-Hash: 7e934e22386f2130afe355b44591d662 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.