On Apr 18, 2008, at 2:25 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>>> BTW, any specific reason you took these discussions off-list (as >>>> I think they would be general interest?) >>> Ups! just because I simply pick 'reply' in Gmail, and you continued >>> the thread writting to me and CC'ing to the list. In other mailing >>> lists configuration, the 'reply-to' is by default set to the list. >> >>> BTW, why cython-devel list does not specify a 'reply-to' by default >>> being the list itself? >> >> This has annoyed me too, but it just now hit me that I could probably >> go in and change it. Done. > > I actually find the changed behaviour annoying. I'm quite capable > of deciding > who I want to reply to. A "reply all" is the intuitively obvious > thing to do > when replying to all members of the mailing list. Currently, there > is no > difference between "reply"ing to the author of an e-mail and > replying to the list. > > Normally, when I hit "reply all", my e-mail client (Thunderbird) > will reply to > the author directly and to the list in CC. Mailman handles that > just fine, and > it just feels right. When I hit "reply", I find it quite obvious > that I want > to reply to the author. So, when I want to take a discussion off- > line, I have > to hit "reply" (or "reply-all"), delete the addressee copied from the > "reply-to" header and then copy the e-mail address of the author > over to the > e-mail. Now, that's annoying. > > It was definitely not the Cython list that was broken here. Any > chance we > could change that back?
I like using the reply-to header because I want to avoid accidentally taking discussions offline (and even if I'm really careful I can't change the behavior of others). It is only in the (uncommon) cases of taking it offline that I want to stop and think about who is in the recipient list. Something like this is clearly a matter of opinion. I think we should have a poll among those who actually use the list. My vote is +1 to using the reply-to header. Yours is obviously -1. I'm willing to concede on a tie but lets see if anyone else has an opinion. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
