Re: [Libusb-devel] Administrivia

[Johannes E. <joh...@er...>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006, Tim Roberts <ti...@pr...> wrote:
> Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 02, 2006, Bertrik Sikken <be...@si...> wrote:
> >>Just a suggestion: is it possible to configure the list such that
> >>hitting 'reply' defaults the "To:" field back to the list instead of
> >>the original poster?
> >
> >http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> That's one person's opinion.  I happen to disagree with it rather
> strongly, especially on a technical mailing list like this, where one
> person's answer can help others with the same question.  It's way too
> easy to accidentally take a thread private, and thereby deprive the
> world of a useful exchange of information.  That by itself outweighs the
> potential embarrassment caused by sending a private message public, in
> my opinion.

It's also easy to use a mailer that isn't broken.

Seriously, I don't see how reducing functionality is equivalent to
making things better here.

> I run 10 mailman mailing lists, and they all have "Reply-To" set to the
> whole list.
> 
> That Thunderbird extension isn't a real choice, since it requires
> modifications to the core code.

There are plenty of mailers publically available that aren't broken out
of the box.

JE