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

[Frank Groeneveld]

Ok, I'm used to the gentoo mailing lists, and they do it the other  
way around.

Frank
Op 26-jun-2007, om 15:24 heeft Florian Lohoff het volgende geschreven:

> 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.
>
> That depends heavily on your audience. In kernel land people are  
> used to
> this kind of setup (see LKML). The advantage is that with your favorit
> mailers functions (reply and group reply) you can decide whom you want
> to answer. When setting the list into the "Reply-To:" you can not.  
> Replying
> just to the author will need editing the address manually.
>
> And yes - Most LKML heackers like to get emails on the list and
> additionally in private as most are heavy email users and following a
> thread you participated in is easier when mails get delivered in you
> inbox and not some list folder you look at every now and then.
>
> Flo
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