On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Tom H tomh0665@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras@gmail.com wrote:
Orthogonal to this is that the mailing lists should not mingle with "Reply-To"; they should leave the To and Cc fields intact, so that the MUA can reply to the right addresses. See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
This way when a non-subscriber posts something, he doesn't have to add the "Please CC me as I'm not in the mailing list"; it will happen automatically.
I couldn't disagree more.
Posting to the list: If someone wants to benefit from a list, the least that he/she should do is subscribe. I delete systematically any email with "please cc me as I'm not subscribed to the list".
So you are saying that all the people that post to the mailing list are doing so to benefit themselves, and not to help the community?
No. I am saying that if you are not willing to subscribe, you are not, AFAIC, part of the community.
Replying to the list: I want the lust to "mangle" the headers so that I can hit "reply" and have the email go the list and not to the person to whom I am replying.
When you hit "reply to all" the mail will be sent to the mailing list, and the other person would receive the mail directly from you, and will know that the mail was directed to him (as a marker in Gmail, or mutt, etc.). Also it's nice to be able to search back mail: 'in:linux-kernel and to:felipe.contreras' and see actual results.
Is it so much to ask for you to hit "reply to all" instead of "reply" (depending on the case), so that other people can have the benefits of non-munged headers?
On debian-user, hitting reply sends an email back to the poster and there are two regular complaints.
1. Many people hit "reply" and don't send a reply to the list - and the recipient then forwards the unintended private email back to the list.
2. Many people hit "reply all" and the person they are replying to complains that he/she has received two emails.
So non-munged headers create more problems that they are worth.