Re: Tr: Re: [Zangband-discussion] *identify* scroll error and a newbish wilderness question

[Steven V. F. <sf...@st...>]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 12:29, Cavalaria Christophe wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 19:05, Steven Von Fuerst wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 07:42, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > > Will wrote:
> > > > Silly silly badly configured mailing-list :-/
> > >
> > > It would be great if the "reply to" address could be changed to the
> > > mailing-list address.
> >
> > I know.  The sourceforge mailing list used to work that way... but some
> > idiot changed how it worked at sourceforge, and now there is nothing we
> > can do about it. :-/
>
> Must be an email client problem. Mine as no difficulties replying by
> default to the mailing list.
>
> Besides, Reply-To is considered harmful :p

The problem with "Reply-To munging considered harmful" is that it doesn't take 
into account the purpose of this mailing list.  Nearly all replys to a 
message from the list 'want' to go back to the list.  The authors of that FAQ 
assume that you really want to just talk to the sender of the message and 
that's it - which is of course wrong.  (It is right in some mailing lists, 
but not this one.)  Then they bring out the straw-man argument about the 
embarrasment of sending a message to the whole list when you really wanted to 
reply to just the sender...

I've lost track of how many times I've accidentally sent to just the 
originator instead of the list by mistake here... and it really is annoying.

Steven