On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:52:08 +0000, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:21, John Myers wrote: > > > Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that. > > > Which mail client has that? > > > > KMail does. If you press 'L' on a list message, it does reply-to-list. > > KMail also seems to get the reply to address right anyway. > (I don't have anything setup to tell it gentoo-user is in this folder, except > a list-id filter to put messages here) >
There are a few things to be learned from this (and several other) thread(s) whcih have been quite animated, to say the least. These "truths" seem obvious to me, but not so obvious to those who maintain the gentoo lists and others who have jumped into the fray. 1. It's NEVER (yes I'm shouting) a good idea to change existing list behavior without notifying the user base and (apparently) without testing the changes in a limited environment. The result of doing this blindly is almost always a lot of flailing around instead of an orderly process. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" also comes to mind. 2. Advance notification of changes (and not just a "we're making some changes," "you get to figure out what they are") is always a very good idea (tm). 3. It seems totally impossible to root out the attitude "Gentoo is for gurus/admins who know every trick in the book, and the rest of you Lusers can just lump it." Unfortunately, not every subscriber to the list is a master of the email headers, the ways of manipulating these headers, and the myriad ways that various email clients handle the headers. Some Lusers just want to read their mail and to be able to reply to the list without a lot of headaches. I don't find suggestions that the Lusers should just go find another list to be very helpful. Sigh. -- Collins -- [email protected] mailing list
