Ben Finney wrote:
Paul McNett <p...@ulmcnett.com> writes:
[Some day hopefully I'll remember to change the to: address to
python-list@python.org instead of the original sender.
Even better: Take full advantage of the standards-compliant messages
from the list, by using the “Reply to list” function of your RFC
2369 compliant mail program. That way the message is sent to the
declared list posting address, without you having to change anything.
If your mail program still doesn't have such a function, over a decade
since RFC 2369 was written, lobby the vendor to add it. Or, in the
case of free software, act some way yourself (write code, pay someone
else to do so, or some other action) to have that function added for
everyone.
I remember taking advantage of that in KMail, before that program became unusably
bloated.
For Thunderbird (which I see you're using, Paul), the open bug report
is <URL:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45715>.
Meanwhile, you can install an add-on to provide the function
<URL:http://www.juergen-ernst.de/addons/replytolist.html>.
Thanks; I'll follow up with those. In general I don't tend to use add-ons because I
have at least 3 computers I regularly use and it is a pain to keep them all
configured consistently.
I always end up sending the first reply to the sender, then going
"oops, forgot to hit reply-all'", and sending another copy to the
list.]
At least that's merely a minor inconvenience; easily rectified by
just sending the message again using the correct function.
Yep.
That's much better, of course, than the opposite situation which
exists on some misconfigured mailing lists: that a message sent using
the “Reply to sender” function, with content written in the
knowledge that only the original message's sender should be reading
it, instead ends up going to the mailing list. That damage can't be
undone.
Well, when you are a member of a public mailing list, replying to a thread, the
expectation is that you are replying to the list, so I happen to think the correct
behavior is the one you think is broken, because practicality beats purity. If I want
to send a private message to someone, I'll start a new mail to that person, or simply
copy/paste their email addy over the list address, but the most common case is that
someone intends to reply to the list.
But arguing about this here isn't going to change anything: opinions differ just like
tabs/spaces and bottom-post/top-post.
Thanks to the Python mailing list administrators for conforming to the
standards and not breaking the configuration like that!
Thanks to the Python mailing list volunteers for running such a well-oiled and
popular list!
Paul
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