Keep in mind that many people post without being subscribed to the list,
This is false. In fact, I tried sending a message to the list from another account that wasn't subscribed, and I got a reply stating the following:
Because you are not subscribed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" using the email address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", your message has been held until you can confirm that you are a real person sending mail.
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Guys, this will not change. Look back through the archives. It has been discussed a couple of times. If you don't like it, unsubscribe. Sorry to be blunt, but this is a waste of bandwidth.
Keep in mind that many people post without being subscribed to the list, so only sending a reply to the list doesn't get them the answer they were looking for. Also, often the list can get slow and getting a private copy of the answer to your question means you don't have to wait an hour or more for it. If you don't know how to configure your mail system to get rid of duplicates, then you will have to suffer through hitting the delete key an extra time. And finally, defaulting to a public post when replying to an individual is simply wrong.
-Rasmus
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote:
On 30 Jun 2003 at 22:34, Derick Rethans wrote:
I disagree with you Derick. In many (most? all?) programs, theYou have procmail for that. There is some very good explanation for
reply- all function will send an email back to the list **and** one
to the author. This wastes bandwidth needlessly, in my opinion. I
receive the messages to the list and do not need to receive a
message sent directly to me.
this, see
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/faq/maillist.html#munge_reply-to
First, Derick, not everyone has access to procmail. In fact, most folk **do not** have access to procmail.
Second, I still think it antithetical to the whole idea of a public mailing list to set the reply-to default to anything other than the mailing list. Since I see no evil coming out of this, nor any misuse, I fail to see the problem. As the owner of a mailing list, I am quite familiar with the webpage you referenced; to my mind, it doesn't make any valid arguments.
Having said this, I suspect that you and I will continue to disagree, which is perfectly okay. If this list changes the default I will be happy. If it doesn't, I will learn to adjust. One request I make is that folk, including you, Derick, refrain from sending replies to my email to both the list *and* my personal inbox. There's no need to waste the bandwidth.
Doug
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