Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Richard Fish
I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out. My guess is mail clients are doing the right thing, but people get in the habit of using repl

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: > @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit > reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out. > > My guess is mail clients are doing the rig

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Graham Murray wrote: I disagree. Reply to all is (normally) the correct way of sending a reply to a mailing list. Using 'reply' should send a private email to the poster of the message. If the mail client is 'doing the right thing', then it will just send the message to the mai

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Graham Murray wrote: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out. My guess is mail clients are doi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Graham Murray wrote: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out. My guess is mail clients are do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why? Isn't the point of replying to a mailing list to send the response > to the sender, which is the list? Yes, which is why the correct response for the mailing list software is to send replies to the list and not to the author of the message being r

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:48:19 +0100, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why? Isn't the point of replying to a mailing list to send the response > > to the sender, which is the list? > > Yes, which is why the correct response for the mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:06:51AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:48:19 +0100, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Why? Isn't the point of replying to a mailing list to send the response > > > to the sender, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Richard Fish
See my new bug report against Thunderbird: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288020 -Richard Richard Fish wrote: >I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: >@robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit >reply-all in thunderbird instead of re

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Antoine
Anyway, I'll do my bit to remember that this list and only this list requires me to hit reply where as all the others I'm all require me to hit reply-to. Heat suit on, Mark I have never really been able to work out what goes on with these things... FWIW, I can certainly say that more than 70%

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:02:51 +0200 Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have never really been able to work out what goes on with these | things... FWIW, I can certainly say that more than 70% of the lists I | subscribe to have the gentoo behaviour - and it annoys the hell out of | me to use th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please (was:Where could i found the standard of SQL)

2005-03-28 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout wrote: Whatever the answer is, it will be the same no matter how many times you repeat the email! In other words, could those of you who still have their mail clients set to To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] please adjust your clients to just mail to the list? The robin bu