Re: [xen-users] mailing list.

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Flavio wrote:

>  > Most people would not disagree, and I notice that you didn't, that the
> >  default behavior of "reply" should be to the list, and only if I want to
> >  reply to a specific user should I actively change who the message is being
> >  sent to.
> You are perfectly right. I definitely agree with you, but maybe this
> behaviour is
> due to the mailman software that manages the list. Maybe it could be
> configured to do what you say. I don't know, because I've never deepen that.
It is an option in Mailman to mangle the reply to header.

However, I'm on a number of lists - some with reply-to set, and some 
without. I don't find it an issue - I just hit Cmd-Option_R instead 
of Cmd-R to reply to all. It's actually more irritating to me when I 
want to reply personally/off-list to someone on a list that has the 
reply-to header set - because I have to copy their address, hit 
reply, and then paste the address in.
All said, it **shouldn't** be any great issue amongst all the other 
cleaning up* that people should be doing (like trimming what they 
quote etc (which some people seem averse to doing). Because I'm on a 
number of lists, I've just got into the habit of doing reply to all - 
even to the extent when I sometimes forget to use a normal reply in 
non-list email :-/
* In this case, move the list address from cc to to, and remove the 
other addresses, and trim the quoted material.
As to getting two copies of mails. Yes that happens, but I find it no 
big deal either. Again, on Mailman (I think) there's an option not to 
get emails from the list which are also addressed directly to 
yourself.

One thing this list has in common with most lists I'm on ... from 
time to time there's a discussion on whether there should be a 
mangled reply-to header !
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