RE: [fetchmail-devel] list reply-to (was Re: automake migration)

[Rob <rob...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fet...@be... 
> [mailto:fet...@be...] On Behalf Of Rob Funk
> 
> That reminds me...
> The fetchmail-friends list didn't have replies set to go back 
> to the list, 
> and there are well-known arguments for that.  For those 
> reasons, I put it that way on the new lists.
> 
> But since these are new lists, it's reasonable to consider 
> switching to the 
> "munge reply-to" setting.  Are there any preferences either way?

Well, as you can probably guess from the line above my .sig, I'll argue
in favour.

Yes, having the reply-to set makes it slightly harder to contact
somebody directly about an issue, but only slightly.  What it does stop
is the all too common problem of somebody either mailing you directly,
and via the list, or as I often get, mailing me instead of the list.

I would say that for the -devel list, leaving it as is should be fine,
developers generally being somewhat more clueful.  For the general
-users list, with it's higher percentage of less aware people, I'd be
strongly in favour of setting the reply-to to be the list.


PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list.  Email sent directly to me may
be ignored utterly.

-- 
Rob | What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?