you're mis-informed; I, for one, have never used a Linus-based machine; and I bet I'm not the only one.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklap...@aol.com> wrote: On 08/12/2012 12:31 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have changed >> (so-called "Reply to mangling" has been disabled). >> >> So far, e-mails had set a reply-to the mailing list address. In other >> words, with any e-mail client, replies to e-mails on the list were >> automatically sent directly to the list. >> >> In the past, this lead to two major problems: >> >> 1. Several times, people have sent direct replies to the public list, >> where deleting them is nearly impossible. I remember at least one case >> where confidential information has been sent out that caused lots of >> worries for the sender and his employer. This happened because people >> hit "reply" and thought it would reply to the sender only. >> >> 2. I have heard complaints in the past from people, stating that working >> with the non-developer lists of LibreOffice is a pain for them, because >> of reply-to mangling, resulting in a lack of communication. This also >> led to the fact that numerous tasks were done by the same people, who >> needed to spend more and more time, instead of sharing the work burden >> with others. While I do not fully believe this argument, there's just >> one way to find out... >> >> Therefore, I have applied a change: >> >> Replies to e-mails from the list now only go to the original sender. You >> either need to use the "reply to all" feature of your e-mail program, or >> - preferably - the "reply to list"/"reply to group" feature, which will >> direct replies directly to the list. >> >> This is common practice on most mailing lists, and even the default >> setting for our mailing list software, so we did not re-invent the wheel >> here. Those seeking for details should have a look at >> http://www.unicom.com/pw/**reply-to-harmful.html<http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html> >> >> I know we had numerous discussions on this topic in the past, but the >> outcome was that roughly 50% were for this change, and 50% refused it, >> so I am really sitting between two chairs here, for which I beg for your >> understanding. On the one hand, those complaining the lists are unusable >> with reply-to mangling, on the other hand, those complaining the lists >> are unusable without reply-to mangling. Unfortunately, combining those >> two, even on a per-recipient basis, is not possible, so they are >> mutually exclusive to each other. >> >> In order to find out the real impact, I simply changed the setting, and >> again, I beg for your understanding. >> >> Do not worry: The mailing lists are for the community, so it's the >> community deciding how they should work. What I'd like to ask all of you >> is to try out for a few days if that change is good for each list or >> not. Should we find out it is more harmful than it helps, I will >> immediately switch back to the old behaviour. >> >> Sorry for this short notice, and I beg for your understanding that I'm >> somehow sitting between two chairs here. >> >> Florian >> >> > Hey All, > > Not trying to be rude. All of you should be smart enough to run an email > tool. After all you're all Linux users who administer at least one Linux > installation. > > For those of you having trouble with email filters try filtering on > "libreoffice-users" in the subject line. That should get all your email to > the right folder. > > -- > _ > °v° > /(_)\ > ^ ^ Mark LaPierre > Registerd Linux user No #267004 > www.counter.li.org > **** > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
