Screw the merits.. Its a big pain in the a** to me. Everything else is crap. ;-)
I have to right click and select "reply to list" which requires me to realize that this is the ONLY apache list I'm on that has made such a lame derivation from the rest.. . Not only that but its wonderful how everyone replies to all and I get 30 freaking copies by the end of the day. And even lovelier how a wonderful list of email addresses is compiled for spammer convenience. Sure they can get it anyhow, but you don't have to serve it up with a glass of Rotlan Torra for them! Having a debate on this is STUPID. There are no merits less two: 1. What do most of the other lists use? 2. What is one's personal preference? (majority rules) -Andy On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 18:49, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Sunday, October 20, 2002 5:25 PM -0400 "Michael A. Smith" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > >> (nonbinding) +1 from me on putting the replyto to go to the > >> list... . > > > > Same from me. I think having the reply-to go to the list helps > > ensure discussions remain on the list, which I feel that helps the > > community as a whole. > > My experience says exactly the opposite. Having a reply-to go to the > list makes it hard to join communities or include people (by default). > > This is especially on lists where people can post without being > subscribed or on lists that have cross-posts. In fact, I might > expect cross-posting to happen on the commons list more so than other > lists (due to reuse across projects). Adding a reply-to makes > cross-posting infeasible - not having it forces people to use > followups (aka reply-to-all on some MUAs) not reply (aka > reply-to-sender), which is correct. > > For a good distinction between 'reply' vs. 'followup' and the harmful > effects of Reply-To munging, please read: > > http://cr.yp.to/immhf/response.html > http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > For lists, you want a followup not a reply. A reply should only be > sent to the original sender (i.e. default to private). A followup > should be sent to everyone involved - hence 'reply to all' as the > common alias for 'followup.' > > As djb points out in the second link, if you don't want to get > duplicate email, you should set Mail-Followup-To header in any email > sent to the list address. This is an opt-in solution on your part, > rather than a harmful dictated solution that has horrible failure > conditions. > > I've yet to see a rational argument for munging Reply-To other than > 'it decreases my email traffic.' As I pointed out above, there are > commonly accepted ways to solve that, but there is no way to solve > the problem of dropped followups. -- justin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh
