Re: [libdbi-devel] one more point (about mailing list)

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Ashish Ranjan <ash...@ya...> was heard to say:

> also, there is problem that in any libdbi list, if i
> click reply, then the "sender of the email on the
> mailing list(say, ash...@ya...)" appears in
> the "To" of the , whereas it should be the "mailing
> list email(lib...@li...)" in the
> "To". Bcoz of this many times we send reply privately
> to the email sender (mostly to markus) instead of
> sending on the libdbi mailing list and that person has
> to take care of forwarding it to mailing list again.
>
>   i think that this may be corrected by setting
> "Reply-To" setting of the mailing list administration
> setting, which is usually there in all the mailing
> lists (i don't know about the sourceforge mailing list
> administrative options flexibilty).
>
>  or any other way?
>

Fiddling with the "Reply-To" is considered harmful, see e.g.

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

for some in-depth information. My two favourite reasons to avoid changing the
"Reply-To" are:

- this is the primary cause of "out of office" floods. The auto-reply goes to
the list, is sent back to everyone, including the originator, and causes
another auto-reply...
- it makes it unnecessarily hard to reply to the author instead of to the list
if you *really* mean to respond to the author.

The "other way" you were asking for is to hit the right button in your mail
client. In Emacs/VM it is as easy as pressing "F" instead of "R" to reply to
the list ("F" actually doesn't require moving your index finger off the default
position when doing touch-typing. "R" requires moving your finger approx. 20mm
which is way more strenuous). Any other reasonable mail client offers similar
choices.

regards,
Markus


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