On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 09:41:20 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-02-05 at 08:58, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2018-02-05 08:40:27 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2018-02-05 at 08:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > >>> You should set up a "Mail-Followup-To:" for that. This is > >>> entirely your problem. > >> > >> That does seem to be the trend and position of the world, > >> especially in recent years, but I disagree as a matter of > >> philosophy. > >> > >> A mailing list whose subscribers can post to it is a discussion > >> forum. > > > > However, for debian-user, non-subscribers can also post. So, for > > mail without a "Mail-Followup-To:", it may be difficult to do the > > "right" thing automatically. > > Even for replies to messages posted by non-subscribers, replying back to > the forum by default is still the right thing to do.
AfAIK. there isn't any way to determine whether a message posted to -user is from a non-subscriber. > If the poster wants to receive replies, it is the poster's > responsibility to do something to cause that to happen. That can take > the form of subscribing, or of setting mail headers, or of saying > "please CC me on replies", or simply of reading the replies in an online > archive or mirror of the mailing list. If the poster does not do such a > thing, then it should be presumed that the poster does not care about > receiving replies. I have a feeling that it's not necessarily because they do not care but because some users are unfamiliar with the idea of a mailing list and engagement with it. -- Brian.
