On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
John Doe sends email to petsc-users and the mailing list rewrites
Reply-To back to the list. Now any user hits reply-all and their mailer
gives them a message that replies *only* to petsc-users, dropping the
original author. This is a problem,
Its a
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
John Doe sends email to petsc-users and the mailing list rewrites
Reply-To back to the list. Now any user hits reply-all and their mailer
gives them a message that replies *only* to petsc-users, dropping the
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
John Doe sends email to petsc-users and the mailing list rewrites
Reply-To back to the list. Now any user hits reply-all and their mailer
gives them a message that
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
Again 'minority usage. Since one would not care about following list
except for 'when they post' - They would filter list traffic into a
different folder - and look at that folder only when they post to that
list.
The problem is that you have to
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
Again 'minority usage. Since one would not care about following list
except for 'when they post' - They would filter list traffic into a
different folder - and look at that folder only when they post to that
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
Sure - there is cost for 'minority users. But to save that - you
propose a cost to majority users [i.e everyone should conciously use
'reply-all']
That has always been standard mailing list etiquette.
Does the list configuration have an API? If so,
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jozsef Bakosi wrote:
Can you guys please CC jbakosi at lanl.gov? Thanks, J
Mailing lists are setup that way. The default is: subscribe to
participate, and reply-to: list. So cc:ing automatically doesn't work.
If everyone used
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jozsef Bakosi wrote:
Can you guys please CC jbakosi at lanl.gov? Thanks, J
Mailing lists are setup that way. The default is: subscribe to
participate, and reply-to: list. So cc:ing
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
I know you deal with personal replies for petsc-maint stuff. But I set
up my mailer to automatically set Reply-to:petsc-maint for all
petsc-maint traffic [and modify it manually for the 1% usage case
where thats not appropriate]
If I only set
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
I know you deal with personal replies for petsc-maint stuff. But I set
up my mailer to automatically set Reply-to:petsc-maint for all
petsc-maint traffic [and modify it manually for the 1% usage case
where
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
If from is a problem [and messesup anyones mailboxes] - I can change
that. I felt it was best to deal with it as petsc-maint completely.
This will cause the problem I mentioned because Reply-to is not strictly
respected either.
Several of us sending
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
But this is drifting off-topic. The question is whether it's better to
munge Reply-to for petsc-users and petsc-dev, which boils down to:
Is it feasible to adopt mailing list etiquette of using reply-all or
must we stick with the current mode of
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
This benefit is a bit dubious - as you'll get some migration of
petsc-maint traffic to petsc-users - but then you loose all the
'reply-to-individual' emails from the archives [yeah - reply-to-reply
emails with cc:list added get archived - perhaps with
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
This benefit is a bit dubious - as you'll get some migration of
petsc-maint traffic to petsc-users - but then you loose all the
'reply-to-individual' emails from the archives [yeah - reply-to-reply
emails
Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov writes:
So it is a client side filtering. Curently there is no spam on the
mailing lists - as it goes in for moderator approval. If we switch
everyone will get spam - and users filters would have to take care of
things. I guess gmail does it one way - but not
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