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 1OUt7R-0002pD-RI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:10:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C99FEE08D1; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3CAE08D1 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398851B400E for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:09:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.88 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.88 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.348, 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 YRj97ypcLDa2 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6751B4014 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUt6d-0001ao-6M for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:09:27 +0200 Received: from 68.168.167.146 ([68.168.167.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:09:27 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 68.168.167.146 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:09:27 +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: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100702005433.GK9344@vidovic> <4C2D5D5D.6010109@gmail.com> <87k4petd7e.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <201007021202.41048.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100702223125.6aa21081@digimed.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.168.167.146 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 56d8ba68-7266-4f7c-b062-60ef5886b07a X-Archives-Hash: a5aa03171271ad3bad4134b39bbe0a73 On 2010-07-02, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:19:36 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> 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. > > So he wants other people to take the trouble to reply, but he won't take > the trouble to look for the replies? That's the way it read to me. If that's not what the OP meant, then I apologize for misunderstanding what he wrote. > If he really finds it so difficult to look for replies to his mails > (some mailers will highlight them), he could always set up a filter > to copy replies to him to his mailbox. Yup. Since the mailing list is already sending him a reply, why he wants a second one is beyond me. > You don't always need everyone else to change to get what you want. Well, I know some people who are like that... -- Grant