[Ilugc] Re: [REQUEST] Application to the mailing list gods!
- From: parth.technofreak@xxxxxxxxx (Parthan)
- Date: Fri Sep 8 15:39:17 2006
balachandar muruganantham wrote:
hi
(1) the immediate issue is of munging or not munging reply-to headers.
i will go
with whichever way the list wants it. perhaps, someone could set up a
vote
somewhere for this? or is this something that is so obvious today that
we dont
need to do this?
i guess the present settings is far good enough.
also take a look at the url http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
my suggestion is the user should never be restricted. its user wish
whether he wants to send the reply to list back or to the individual.
either u can use reply | reply to all option in most of the mail
clients (both desktop and web based).
please dont try to control the user. give user the flexibility and let
him decide.
IMHO, by munging a 'reply-to' header, I don't think the freedom of the
user to decide where his reply is sent to will be controlled anyway. In
a mailing list, the default procedure is mailing your replies back to
the mailing list so it gets distributed to everyone. So, making the
'reply-to' field to point to the mailing list's is not a wrong idea, it
indeed is the best thing to do.
Also, we have seen many time in the past that instead of sending back
the reply to the mailing list, replies had been sent to the individuals.
This is especially true in cases when the thread grows and more people
start multi-quoting one another that eventually we miss who-said-what
and start replying to in-appropriate people instead of mailing to the
person whom we are actually replying in regards with. To prevent such
issues as well as prevent the drive to send personal mails flaming
people for their comments, we can have a reply-to field point to the
mailing-list id, so by default the mails indeed reach the mailing list
rather than individuals.
Even when I started with this mail, I had to manually remove the
individual mail id and replace it with the mailing-list's id. Rather
than calling it pain in the fingers I would like to call it an overhead,
which indeed as someone in the beginning said, de-motivates us from
completing the reply which we had actually intended to... especially
when more individuals were addressed in the previous mail and thus reply
to or reply-all both adds extra work to change the to: field.
++1 voting for reply-to munging :)
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