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 1OUh62-00031y-Pq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:20:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6262E0BA3; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77949E0BA3 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314241B4016 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.137 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.137 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.605, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EhbDoJy+kw5B for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FD41B4029 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUh5k-0006t2-Bm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:19:44 +0200 Received: from 64.122.56.22 ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:19:44 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 64.122.56.22 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:19:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100702005433.GK9344@vidovic> <4C2D5D5D.6010109@gmail.com> <87k4petd7e.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <201007021202.41048.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.56.22 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 1bbce6b7-a48f-4940-a486-5cc5431dd484 X-Archives-Hash: 26597a9693f35329658a4c3a2f03d6aa On 2010-07-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 12:01:09 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Dale writes: >> > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2010-07-02, 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 as it >> >>> permit to be notified of an answer without having to track the whole >> >>> mailing list. > Or, he could use a mailer that understands mailing lists, like kmail. There > are others. > > Filter list mail into a folder, and tell the mailer it is for a list. > > Decide how you want to reply and press (the composer deals with it correctly): > > l - reply to list > a - reply to all > R - reply to original sender > r - reply to whatever seems to be default reply address. > > So instead of blindly clicking reply and getting all upset about the > outcome, just press one key and the mailer obeys YOUR intent. His intent is to receive direct replies to his posts. I don't see how his choice of mail client has any impact on that. > Problem solved. Not really. The OP's choice of mail client isn't going to change what happens when people reply to his postings. He wants "reply-to" to contain his address as well as the list address so that he gets a direct response and doesn't have to bother to check the mailing list for replies. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Hey, wait at a minute!! I want a gmail.com divorce!! ... you're not Clint Eastwood!!