Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:39:49 +0000, Michael Rozdoba wrote:
I subscribe to a few mailing lists, many of which refuse to add a
reply-to line pointing to the list, claiming this is broken
behaviour.
Me too, but I see it as a broken list...
Yes, broken mailing list system probably.
See my other post - this is intentional behaviour, broken or otherwise.
What is it run by? Mailman?
Yeah - several of the opie/openzaurus related lists, such as
opie@handhelds.org; though bitbake-dev@lists.berlios.de is configured to
set a reply-to, I don't think any of the other five related lists are
(spread across handhelds, sourceforge & berlios, all run by mailman iirc).
I have had similar problems with Horde, but not with Neomail IIRC. Best
thing to do is copy and paste the address of the mailing list (*). Just
make sure you remember to always do so. If you mistakenly reply to sender,
the embarrassment is small anyhow...
I know, but it is annoying. Either their arguments are weak or false,
whence it's annoying I can't get the behaviour changed, or my client
Thunderbird is deficient in this one small respect, which is also
annoying. Either way I end up annoyed, which is annoying ;)
The response to raising this on the list/s is that one should use a
decent mail client that provides a reply-to-list button.
Decent = non-existent. I don't even think Outlook has widget named
'reply-to-list'. A list is a list. If works properly, its 'reply-to'
address must always be the mailing list's, not the sender's.
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html suggests Elm or Pine.
I've got nothing against the command line, regardless of the
availability of a gui - I like Vim - but Elm isn't exactly my ideal
choice for a cross platform mail client.
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Michael
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