Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 09:26:16AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > Good mailers have different reply modes. "reply" use only From, "wide > reply" use also Cc and adresses from To (I think you used this one), and > "reply to list" which is the good one to use. If you don't have it and > don't want to change your mailer, manually remove adresses from To is the > right option.
I think that writing reply instructions in the signature of an email is a bit like trying to communicate with your plumber by scrawling a note on toilet paper and flushing it. There will be a very low success rate. My level of irritation upon receiving a personal copy of list email is non-zero, but is still; almost unmeasurable to me, so I have difficulty empathising with people who take it so seriously as to actually write instructions, but that's just me. In the specific case of debian mailing lists, are there ways to influence what happens when the typical gmail user presses "reply all"? I am thinking what happens if you set "Reply-To" and/or "Mail-Followup-To" by yourself to be that of the list? I've done so here. What happens if you do a group reply? (you don't have to actually send the email, just see what would happen if you did). It would be my hope that a group reply on such an email would only offer to send the reply to the list, so that people could just do that rather than try to tell humans how to reply. But I prepare to be disappointed in software. Either way, expecting the vast bulk of email users to be able to follow such instructions seems like just a way to set oneself up for having a thing to complain about these days. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
