2009/5/20 yy <yiyu....@gmail.com>: > 2009/5/20 Szabolcs Nagy <nszabo...@gmail.com>: >> On 5/20/09, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Let's have hackers@ be some meta list which sends to dwm@ and wmii@, >>> and those subscribed to hackers will receive dwm@ and w...@. Those who >>> are only interested in dwm@ or wmii@ specifically could just stay on >>> dwm@ resp. w...@. That should be technically possible. >> >> dwm, wmii -> hackers >> hackers -> dwm, wmii >> >> so one sends a mail to dwm@ then it goes to hackers@ then someone >> replies there and the reply goes to w...@? >> > > Maybe I'm being naive, mailing lists are not my strong point. But IMO > you can send the messages to the people subscribed to hackers with the > corresponding FROM: field (dwm or wmii). So, if one sends a mail to > dwm, you recive it as coming from dwm. Since hackers subscribed recive > mail from both lists, the reply will arrive to dwm and hackers > subscribers. Only if you specifically send an email to hackers it will > be received by both lists (and you could, for example, change the TO: > field when the discussion goes off-topic). Maybe somebody knows if I'm > right or absolutely wrong.
That's possible, though in reality people will reply to dwm@ or wmii@ and the others won't see it, which is why having one list to keep track of the discussions is better, where dwm@ and wmii@ are aliases for the same. In the beginning I'd even go that far to have the commit logs on that list as well. Kind regards, Anselm
