Hello, I think if someone clicked on reply button, the originator of the email should not be included directly in 'To'. This ia common industry best practice. I am inclined with Aditya's thought here.
-- Best Regards, Suraj Khurana Technical Consultant On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:49 PM Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lir...@nereide.fr> wrote: > Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> writes: > > > Le 13/06/2019 à 13:02, Mathieu Lirzin a écrit : > >> Hello Jacques > >> > >> Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> writes: > >> > >>> 1st please when you answer to dev ML don't add my email to this > >>> answer. I continuously and indefectibly follows this ML (as we are > >>> required as committer). I have an email filter to redirect all dev ML > >>> emails to a dev ML folder in my email clients (Thunderbird). Actually > >>> I have 263 such filters (OK I filter a lot :D). It's not much about > >>> you but I have seen a such pattern appearing these last times. So > >>> please guys, we don't need a copy ;) > >> Asking every person on that list to remember your personnal preferences > >> and requiring them to manually remove your email address from recipients > >> when using “Replying all” does not scale. :-) > > > > Actually we should never use “Replying all” when replying to an ML. > > Else you get these useless and annoying duplicates not filtered, that's > what I meant. > > If you have duplicates, then it's a bug in the mailing-list software > that should be reported to INFRA. The right thing would be to not > resend an email to user both present in the recipients and subscribed to > a list (GNU Mailman is doing that). > > > We should use "Replied to List" when it exists. It appears for me in > Thunderbird when fitting. > > I hope other email clients and webmails are allowing the same. > > I guess for that the reply-to value must be set to dev@ofbiz.apache.org > and Infra can handle that. > > It was working for a very long time and I suddenly these burst of > duplicates, as Aditya found, don't you? > > Asking people to use “Reply to list” would be acceptable if we were > assuming that everybody participating in the discussion is subscribed to > the mailing-list which is only partially true in our case, given our > current process which consist of accepting email from non-subscribed > users but yelling at them for not not being subscribed. > > >> Please configure your email client to add “Reply-to: > dev@ofbiz.apache.org” > >> in the header of the messages you are sending to that list. That will > >> allow other email clients to automatically respect your personnal > >> preferences. > > > > I don't agree, as an ASF member I reply to a lot of MLs. I don't want to > be bothered by that for all of them. > > Deepak's answer with INFRA-18478 seems to be the way we should handle > that. > > I often don't want to cut the grass in my garden, but sometimes I have > too. ;-) > > If you have a huge pile of ML subscriptions (50? 100?), you can > configure your email client incrementally each time you send an email to > a list that is not already configured and someday they will eventually > all be properly configured. \o/ > > Thanks. > > -- > Mathieu Lirzin > GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37 >
