On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 08:36:41AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
there are some things I don't like about the way this list is implemented, the key one being that it's set to default to sending replies off-list.
My preferred email clients (Thunderbird and Seamonkey) do not have any means of sending replies only to the list, so I find myself sometimes sending replies I intend for the list, off-list.
Worse, I miss replies to some of my queries; I've seen replies in the archives that haven't made it to me.
I have visited https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/fedora-xen and turned "Avoid duplicate copies of messages" off, but still miss replies.
The whole issue would be solved, both for incoming and outgoing email, if the default list behaviour was changed to send replies to the list; this is appropriate for a discussion such as this.
I'm not going to get into this discussion again, other than to refer you to the previous thread
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-May/msg00021.html
To quote Markus
"This just replaces one set of problems with a different set of arguably worse problems, shifting the annoyance from one set of people (which includes John) to another set (which includes me)."
So no, it won't be changing.
Dan.