begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:29:26PM -0700: > On Mar 21, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > > >In between those two should be one other, but Sparky seems to kill > >that one. I tried adding the field "Reply-To:" and directing it to > >the -kooler list. This would have the benefit of allowing anyone in > >the current list to see my post, but if they try to reply they will > >have to be subscribed to the -kooler list. Of course, he would have > >the option to force his response back to the current list or to > >reply privately. > > In previous, nearly endless, debates, it was decided that the default > behavior of "hitting 'reply' replies to the list" was desired. > Indeed, that's how it's done on nearly every mailing list I'm on, and > lists that don't behave that way really throw me off. For all intents > and purposes, think of the list as a newsgroup, and replies by default > go to the group.
Unfortuneately, newsreaders tend to respect Followup-To:.... which is where the problem seems to be occurring. > Mailman (and most list managers) enforce this by setting Reply-To: to > the list address. The Nicer Solution (tm) would be if clients would > ALSO support Followups-To:, but it seems that only mutt offers that > option, IIRC. (I'm not a mutt user, btw.) Isn't the Mail-Followup-To: header meant for those other mail clients? It's what I do to mitigate the problem with some clients that ignore the Reply-To: and prefer to send a response directly to the From: address, and it seems to be working. > IMHO, changing the To: header in a reply is not any harder than adding > a Followups-To: or Reply-To:, with the added benefit that the list > manager won't mangle the To: header. Change the To:, wedge [Kooler] in the Subject:, add a Mail-Followup-To:, and Cc: to the original list and then drop further conversation in the main list? > Never a perfect solution, and we'll never make everyone happy, but > close enough is good enough, right? :) Putting [Kooler] in the subject is an easy first step, I would think. Wonder if we could convince mailman to reroute email with "Re: [Kooler]" in the subject line to -kooler? -- Never let it be said that I dislike all of Bob's Great Ideas. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
