RE: [fetchmail-devel] list reply-to

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fet...@be... 
> [mailto:fet...@be...] On Behalf Of Matthias Andree
> 
> I object to reply-to munging throughout. If the people are uneducated,
> they can learn. Pressing G or clicking "reply all" is neither hard nor
> inexplicable.

No, it's not hard for you, nor most techies.  However keep in mind that
many people who come to the -users list for help *aren't* techies.  Most
of them are unable to contemplate reading the man page, searching the
list archive or even using Google.

Expecting such people to understand the concept of managing the reply
addresses is, frankly, being overly optomistic.  If the reply-to is set
to the list address then it means that people who try to help don't get
bombarded with emails from people who assume that you are the list.
While in theory I could set the reply-to according to the list I'm
dealing with, when you're dealing with a number of lists that gets a
little silly.

Just remember, these days having a clue is an optional extra for using
Linux :)


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?