Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-18 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:18:36PM -0500, Mike Lococo wrote: > The basic points have been summarized for newcomers, which is as far as > the discussion need proceed. If you have further comments, please take > the discussion off-list. Exactly. To take a discussion offlist, you need an unmunged Re

Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread R. G. Newbury
Peter Flynn wrote: > A normal mailing-list reader should NOT have to make a mental decision > each time they write a reply: the Reply-To header ought to have been set > appropriately by the mailing list. > > But it won't change. It's up to the owners of mailing lists to set the > appropriate d

Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Lococo
Greetings, >> Why does Thunderbird always send to individuals rather than the >> list for this mailing list? Weird! > > It's an article of faith among strict mail gurus that replies should > always go back to the sender, and any variance from this is regarded > as meddling (see the rant at > http

OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Flynn
Matt Emson wrote: > Why does Thunderbird always send to individuals rather than the list for > this mailing list? Weird! It's due to a grotesque misunderstanding. It's an article of faith among strict mail gurus that replies should always go back to the sender, and any variance from this is reg

Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Tilman Vogel wrote: > Johan Helsingius schrieb: > > Use "Reply All" if you want to send to the > > whole list too. > > I'd suggest to remove the individual recipients then (like I did now), > because many people don't like to get individual duplicates on m

Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Tilman Vogel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frantisek Dufka schrieb: > Tilman Vogel wrote: >> I'd suggest to remove the individual recipients then (like I did now), >> because many people don't like to get individual duplicates on mailing >> list posts. > > Is there some reasoning or RFC regard

Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Tilman Vogel wrote: > I'd suggest to remove the individual recipients then (like I did now), > because many people don't like to get individual duplicates on mailing > list posts. Is there some reasoning or RFC regarding this? I'm quite ambivalent on this and mostly leave people in. I only remove

OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Tilman Vogel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Helsingius schrieb: > Use "Reply All" if you want to send to the > whole list too. I'd suggest to remove the individual recipients then (like I did now), because many people don't like to get individual duplicates on mailing list posts. Some ma