Michael Chesterton wrote:
> Personally I find lists and people setting reply-to annoying. I mean
> how important are you that you can't be disturbed by an email in your
> in box.
Thats an extremely short-sighted view.
I am on a well over 50 mailing lists, some of which can have
high volumes (the kernel mailing list can peak at over 50 emails
an hour). Having that torrent end up in my inbox is completely out
of the question as I also receive emails directly to me that need
to be acted on at relatively short notice.
> There's also the option of filtering the direct emails so you never
> have to see them.
I do this filtering using procmail triggered by the List-Id.
The problem is that if I send a email to this list and I set a
Reply-To (and no, Mail-Followup-To is not well supported) and
someone does a reply-to-all a two things can happen depending
on the list setup:
a) I get two copies, the direct one and via the list software.
The first ends up in my inbox, and the second in the correct
folder.
b) The list software recognises that I was CCed and doesn't send
me a copy so I only get the direct copy, which ends up in my
inbox.
For case a) I have to remember whether I can delete it for this
list or whether I should manually move it to the correct folder.
This whole problem becomes far worse if I get CCed a copy on
discussion thread of hundreds of messages where everyone is
CC-ing me.
The thing that appals me most, is that if reply-to munging was used
this wouldn't be a constant problem. Instead, there would be the
ocassional problem of a mail sent to the list when it was meant as
a private response. Yes, i have read the repy-to-munging-is-evil
thing but I choose to disagree.
Erik
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