Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Proposed programs' header skeleton

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:27:52AM -0800, Wizard (wi...@ne...) wrote:
> > BTW: Why am I getting Oliver's replies but not the messages to which
> > Oliver replies? Are people sending privately rather than to the list?
> > It's really much more helpful if people send to the list - volume is
> > good and it may well save duplication and it means everything is on
> > record, such as design decisions.
> 
> The list sets the 'From' address to the sender's address, and the 'CC'
> address to the distribution list. Most other lists do it this way, which I
> think is stupid. It should set the 'From' address to either both addresses
> (which I'm not sure is possible), or just the list address, and leave the
> 'CC' field blank.
> In order to reply to the list presently, you need to 'Reply to all'. You can
> then remove the sender's email address.
> 
> Actually, what might be best would be if the list would set the 'From'
> address to "User Name co nms <nms...@li...>". This
> would show the User's name in most MUAs, but reply to the list. This would
> also be nice for anonymity from email harvesters and to keep people from
> flaming privately without using the list.

My personal feeling is that I dislike reply-to munging and prefer lists to
act the way that this one does.

On the support list, where the people posting (or at least one half of them!)
might be a little less technically clued-up I can certainly see the argument
for reply-to munging.

However, all discussion on this topic is pointless as Sourceforge have 
decreed that all lists hosting on their server won't be able to munge
"reply-to" headers. That option has been disabled in the the mailman
configuration screen. Their policy on this is available at:

<https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6693&group_id=1>

If anyone could persuade Sourceforge to change thier policy then I'd be 
very happy to set the list in accordance with the majority's preferences,
but until that day there is no point in continuing this discussion.

And please remember to use "reply-all" or "group-reply" when replying to
emails from this mailing list.

Dave...

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