Re: [Xen-users] [OT] Reply-to on this list

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
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