Hi all (esp list admins) Recently I''ve seen a lot of people not realizing that they have to reply to all in order to include this list in the recipients of emails. I''m curious why the reply-to field is not being set explicitly to the list''s address instead of the actual sender''s? Is there some historical reason for this? There have been a number of conversations recently where random bits are being quoted that never made it to the list, because people reply to the sender only, who then replies again but includes the list this time... It''s rather annoying, actually :) I''d think that most people would expect the default behavior of ''reply'' to be to send to the whole list, and that if they only want to include the sender, they could do this by hand... Dave -- Dave Goodlad dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca http://david.goodlad.ca/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Am Samstag, den 29.04.2006, 09:43 -0700 schrieb David Goodlad:> [...] why the reply-to field is not being set explicitly to the list''s > address [...]This is discussed iextensively on many lists since mailing lists exist. Here''s a nice write-up of "why not": <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html> /nils. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 4/29/06, Nils Toedtmann <xen-users@nils.toedtmann.net> wrote:> Am Samstag, den 29.04.2006, 09:43 -0700 schrieb David Goodlad: > > [...] why the reply-to field is not being set explicitly to the list''s > > address [...] > > This is discussed iextensively on many lists since mailing lists exist. > Here''s a nice write-up of "why not": > > <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html> > > /nils. > >Ok, thanks for the link. People just need to learn to hit the ''reply to all'' button :) Dave -- Dave Goodlad dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca http://david.goodlad.ca/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi David, This has been discussed before on xen-devel. There''s always two camps here. Some people really like Reply-To to be the sender. This means that you''re forced to do a Reply All and the result is that for notes that you are part of the thread, they usually end up in your Inbox (instead of filed away in a mailing list folder). If you get a whole lot of email or are on a whole lot of lists, this helps a lot in making sure you see threads that are important. For instance, I only read xen-users once a week or every other week. Of course, the other side makes the argument you''ve made. Suffice to say that there are enough developers who preferred the first option that that''s what we have. Regards, Anthony Liguori David Goodlad wrote:> Hi all (esp list admins) > > Recently I''ve seen a lot of people not realizing that they have to > reply to all in order to include this list in the recipients of > emails. I''m curious why the reply-to field is not being set > explicitly to the list''s address instead of the actual sender''s? Is > there some historical reason for this? > > There have been a number of conversations recently where random bits > are being quoted that never made it to the list, because people reply > to the sender only, who then replies again but includes the list this > time... It''s rather annoying, actually :) I''d think that most people > would expect the default behavior of ''reply'' to be to send to the > whole list, and that if they only want to include the sender, they > could do this by hand... > > Dave > > -- > Dave Goodlad > dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca > http://david.goodlad.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users