list-admin :: default to 'reply-to' the list ?

Eberhard Moenkeberg emoenke at gwdg.de
Wed Nov 1 11:15:53 CST 2006


Hi,

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jerry Yu wrote:

> could this explain why some older postings are not well threaded, when you
> google and found them in the archive?
>
> Anyhow, I didn't mean to start a mailman discussion or alike. just want a
> sane default behavior to benefit myself and future readers of the archive. I
> use Gmail and Notes (webmail) to read posts, 'reply' is a lot easier/faster
> than 'reply-to-all'...
>
> Allow me to summarize what we have so far:
>
>  - reply-to: list     No action required of the end user, but a simple
>  change by the list admin, I assume
>  - reply-to-all:      user needs to delete the current poster he
>  replied to; or to be flagged not to receive duplicates

More worse: a smooth behaviour of reply-to-all needs the nodupes flag for 
the receiving side.
But that inhibits identifying list mails.

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)



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