[Btrfs-devel] Reply-to address not set for mailing list.

Chris Mason chris.mason at oracle.com
Tue Jun 26 06:16:29 PDT 2007


On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:22:08PM +0200, Frank Groeneveld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know who set up this mailing list, but it would be very  
> useful to setup a reply-to address for all messages sent to the  
> mailing list. I've seen it happen more than once, that people just  
> click reply and the message is only sent to the original poster,  
> meaning that it doesn't show up on the mailing list.
> Most mailing lists are configured in a way, that the reply-to address  
> is set to the mailinglist address, so that you can just hit reply in  
> your mail application.

This is a bit of personal preference, some people really love the
reply-to list bit.  But, it frequently snares people trying to make
private replies they would prefer to keep private, and often causes long
debates about the perfect mailing list config.

So, I'll leave it off ;)

-chris




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