We beat this to a pulp on the oclug mailing list just a few days ago. Basically it makes sense from any logical point of view for a mailing list. Specifically that most responses generally want to reply to the entire list so that an actual conversation can take place.
However setting it to reply to list by default violates RFC 2822 apparently. Which is not to say your going to hell if you do. Just that you place the ease of allowing members of the mailing list to simply hit reply to communicate with the entire list over adhering to standards. Is it really an inconvenience to hit reply to all, no. However its not what we normally do to emails so it seem like an inconvenience. Also many modern mail clients are smart and have a "reply to list" option. This does not apply to those of us that use gmail sadly. The munging that takes place isn't really going to prevent all that much spam from coming your way eventually I see no reason to use reply to poster over list. Apparently the list moderator for OCLUG and at least one guy at UCI feel that reply to poster is the way to go. I am on numerous lug mailing lists and all of them except OCLUG use reply to mailing list. However this could be just in based on the fact that they are LUGs and not dev lists or etc. If you really want to understand the reasons why just wrap you brain around RFC 2822 which is just a google search away. ...Now I'm probably going to get reamed for top posting. Which RFC is that? Chris On 12/3/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to recommend this mailman setting for another list I'm on. > > ..but a question comes up: Mailman's docs contain some words to the effect: > > >> Where are replies to list messages directed? > >> Poster is strongly recommended for most mailing > >> lists. > > I believe we use mailman and all "our" lists have the reply-to option > set to "this list" -- is this not so? > > I thought the "this list" option made eminent sense, so why would they > use the _strongly recommended_ language? > > Are there any downsides to this header setting? > > Regards, > ..jim > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
