Hi, Sorry this might be a bit off topic, but... I''m not sure who to address this to. I''ve noticed that when trying to reply to a thread that my email client wants to send the reply to the personal email address of the sender, when in fact, I think it should instead go to the list. That is, the "to" field in the message is the personal address of some person, with the list being cc''d only when I click on Reply All. I''m only experiencing this behavior on the ironruby-core list, and I''ve noticed that messages from others are also having the same issue. I think it could be fixed by adding a reply-to field for all messages sent out by the list, so that when I click on Reply the "to" field in the message is ironruby-core at rubyforge.org Can somebody fix this? Do others think this is needed? Regards, Tony
That would be nice... On 9/13/07, Tony Djordjevski <tony at v-sim.com> wrote:> > Hi, > > Sorry this might be a bit off topic, but... I''m not sure who to address > this to. > > I''ve noticed that when trying to reply to a thread that my email client > wants to send the reply to the personal email address of the sender, > when in fact, I think it should instead go to the list. That is, the > "to" field in the message is the personal address of some person, with > the list being cc''d only when I click on Reply All. > > I''m only experiencing this behavior on the ironruby-core list, and I''ve > noticed that messages from others are also having the same issue. > > I think it could be fixed by adding a reply-to field for all messages > sent out by the list, so that when I click on Reply the "to" field in > the message is ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > > Can somebody fix this? Do others think this is needed? > > Regards, > Tony > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/attachments/20070913/23b04038/attachment.html
There''s a couple of points of view on this: Con: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Pro: http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml I personally like the current behavior where a Reply will reply to the original poster vs. a Reply All which will reply to the original poster + the list. This will, of course, spam the original poster on a reply all. But if enough folks hate this (folks on ''my'' side please speak up! :)) I''ll flip the switch on the mailing list. Thanks, -John From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Eric Nicholson Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:16 AM To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Reply-to address That would be nice... On 9/13/07, Tony Djordjevski <tony at v-sim.com<mailto:tony at v-sim.com>> wrote: Hi, Sorry this might be a bit off topic, but... I''m not sure who to address this to. I''ve noticed that when trying to reply to a thread that my email client wants to send the reply to the personal email address of the sender, when in fact, I think it should instead go to the list. That is, the "to" field in the message is the personal address of some person, with the list being cc''d only when I click on Reply All. I''m only experiencing this behavior on the ironruby-core list, and I''ve noticed that messages from others are also having the same issue. I think it could be fixed by adding a reply-to field for all messages sent out by the list, so that when I click on Reply the "to" field in the message is ironruby-core at rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core at rubyforge.org> Can somebody fix this? Do others think this is needed? Regards, Tony _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/attachments/20070913/a3e5d819/attachment.html
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:21:58 -0600, John Lam (CLR) <jflam at microsoft.com> wrote:> I personally like the current behavior where a Reply will reply to the > original poster vs. a Reply All which will reply to the original poster > + the list.This is an age old debate that dates back to the early, early, early days of Internet mailing lists. There''s advantages to both. I have no real preference myself.> This will, of course, spam the original poster on a reply all.That depends on the back-end software. *Most* modern list servers parse the To: and Cc: fields and remove any addresses it recognizes from the distribution list before echoing the message to the list members. XML-Dev and W3C mailing lists are two examples that I can think of that do things this way. -- /M:D M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155
-1 for John''s opinion (in this case). I prefer reply-to. :) On 9/13/07, John Lam (CLR) <jflam at microsoft.com> wrote:> > There''s a couple of points of view on this: > > > > Con: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > > > Pro: http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml > > > > I personally like the current behavior where a Reply will reply to the > original poster vs. a Reply All which will reply to the original poster + > the list. This will, of course, spam the original poster on a reply all. > > > > But if enough folks hate this (folks on ''my'' side please speak up! J) I''ll > flip the switch on the mailing list. > > > > Thanks, > > -John > > > > > > > > > > *From:* ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Eric Nicholson > *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:16 AM > *To:* ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] Reply-to address > > > > That would be nice... > > On 9/13/07, *Tony Djordjevski* <tony at v-sim.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry this might be a bit off topic, but... I''m not sure who to address > this to. > > I''ve noticed that when trying to reply to a thread that my email client > wants to send the reply to the personal email address of the sender, > when in fact, I think it should instead go to the list. That is, the > "to" field in the message is the personal address of some person, with > the list being cc''d only when I click on Reply All. > > I''m only experiencing this behavior on the ironruby-core list, and I''ve > noticed that messages from others are also having the same issue. > > I think it could be fixed by adding a reply-to field for all messages > sent out by the list, so that when I click on Reply the "to" field in > the message is ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > > Can somebody fix this? Do others think this is needed? > > Regards, > Tony > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/attachments/20070913/fcd032cc/attachment-0001.html