Oh #$#R*&Y not again, please check the (ancient) archives on why this list was changed from the behaviour that you seem to have initiated without consultation with the list.
In short: 1) many replies to the list (and the expertise it represented) were lost as most people never bothered to navigate down the menus to readd the list to the reply - note that this is a user behaviour, not an automatic action and its not in human nature to do extra work unnecessarily. This is THE major reason to retain the old behaviour. 2)the user ends up with two replies because its extra clicks to delete them - why bother? 3) annoying the user base unnecessarily - respect the users because without them gentoo will die 4) most user based email lists work at the old behaviour for the above reasons 5)on past behaviour, be ready for a continuing flame war and questions "why does this list work differently to every other email list I am on ..." that will negate any gains you think you have made 6)this is one of the most annoying problems with gmail - if you get an email direct from a gentoo user and not to the list, it was most likely due to a gmmail account Enough said, change it back, NOW. (yes, this has pissed me off) BillK On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:32 +0100, Andrea Barisani wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Seems like the Reply-To: header for this list no longer point to the > > list... is that an intentional change? > > > > I would appreciate having the old behaviour instead. > > > > /Andreas > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > The Reply-To header is useless since all MUA supports the "reply to > list/all/sender" functions and usually reply-to should be set by the > person who's sending the message. > > Take a look at this: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > Cheers > -- [email protected] mailing list
