Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <r...@sygehus.dk> writes: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:07:10PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> My MUA is flexible enough to strip _forged_ Reply-To header that this >> list errorneously adds to every mail. So i'm perfectly aware how this >> fucking mailing list works and i had to explicitly workaround this >> stupidity. > > There's a header field for this purpose. Use it: > > List-Post: <mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org> > > In mutt, I just hit 'L' - list reply - and it figures it out. Of course, > if you send a copy to someone directly, that header field is missing and the > list server doesn't send a duplicate to the directly addressed recipient, > who then has to manually edit the addresses when replying. So please don't > put both the list and a person on the list in the To/Cc fields.
Now imagine i see a message from some person, with some ML (i'm subscribed to Cc'd). Also there's like 5 persons in Cc list, that are addressed explicitly because they have something to do with the topic (like they're subsystem maintainers, original authors or something like that). If i press "g" in mutt my To: header will be set to what was in Reply-To: (if the sender for some reason decided to set it for whatever reason) or to the From:. My Cc will be identical to those of original message. Everybody relevant to the topic will receive the message and in case some persons from that list were subscribed, they won't receive it twice because ML software will see them already in To or Cc and so will avoid sending a dup. But if i press "L" and some of the Cc'd persons are not subscribed to the list (which is a very common situation for things involving different areas of interest, e.g. both alsa and arm) they will not receive my reply which is not what is intended. So, basic rules are: 1. lists don't send duplicate mails to those already present in To or Cc. 2. not every person participating in conversation is subscribed and it's perfectly legal to post to most MLs without being subscribed (with proper spam protection in place (i'd require SPF PASS) it works without much troubles). My conclusion is: group reply aka reply-all is the right thing to do, other methods (Reply-To forgery or "list reply") are wrong. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community