I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I've been on mailing lists for years and they all have followed these 2 things and I suppose I'm used to them. When I click on reply I expected it to automatically reply-to the list. Which in this case I have to ctrl-l to force it to reply to the list. I've never had to do this in the past... I didn't know it was even a feature of any of my clients (doubt they all support it now).
Also since I view list messages from about 5 locations on one "inbox" on an imap or pop3 server (depending on the client) it's difficult to instantly tell where it's coming from since the "TO:" address isn't listed by default on any e-mail client I've ever used. So sorting by subject doesn't help me at all. My filters don't run until I get home on one of my 3 workstations that run e-mail clients that filter on inbox load. I have a number of clients I use on my phones and/or my work pc that I don't filter to my home e-mail server. I'd filter on my e-mail server but most mobile clients make it extremely difficult to load a bunch of different imap folders with any sort of efficiency whatsoever. If I get an email from this list entitled something like "Hey couple questions" how would I know where it's from without opening it if the client only shows the subject on a tiny 2 inch screen? I didn't realize there were such strong feelings towards these ideas... I do see the reasons for the reply-to address... but the subject line doesn't make sense to me at all. I feel it's a huge advantage to add a prefix that is well known. Dan Koester [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:45 +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > This comes up again and again on ml's, so just shoirt answers. > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:11, Dan Koester wrote: > > Someone brought it to my attention that I was not replying to the entire > > list when I hit reply (I was not checking and assuming it was returning > > to the list). It appears as though the reply-to address is not set to > > the lists address. > > No, this is a no no. Please read the following: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > For replies to the ml use the reply-to-ml feature of your mailer. If > your mailer doesn't support this, open e bug. > > > Also it would be handy (and I have e-mailed the admin account listed on > > the website) if there was a prefix in the subject line for the mailing > > lists. I have even noticed a couple of people manually adding one. > > This only waste space in the subject header. Mails from the ml already > have a List-ID heaer inside. You can use this one to filter your > mails. > > > Both of these requests seem to follow current etiquette. > > Sorry, but I disagree. Which etiquette you refer to? > > regards > Stefan Schmidt > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
