On Mar 7, 2009, at 02:46, Martin Krischik wrote:
I noticed something annoying about the mailing list: Quite often
when I
hit reply the reply goes to the original author and not the mailing
list.
This always occurs on macports-users and macports-dev. This is
intentional, following this reasoning:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
I did some experimenting and noticed that this happens when more then
one address is added to "To" address. And this in turn happens when
you
just click reply on svn commits.
Maybe we could fine-tune the svn commit posting so that this won't
happen any more.
The lists are configured the way we want them.
On the discussion lists (macports-users and macports-dev), to reply,
you should almost always use the "Reply All" feature of your email
program so that the reply goes both to the list and to the person who
wrote the message you're replying to. If you just use the "Reply"
feature your message will only go to the author and not to the list
and the list won't benefit from the discussion.
On macports-changes, the Reply-To is set so that you should just
"Reply" and your reply will go to macports-dev and to the person who
made the commit. It was deliberately set up this way because we want
discussion of commits to occur on macports-dev, and just in case the
committer is not on macports-dev, the message should go to the
committer too. You should not post messages to macports-changes
yourself (it is for automated messages from the Subversion repository
only) so you should not use "Reply All" or manually address messages
to macports-changes.
I am not on macports-tickets so I don't know how it's set up. I would
hope it's set up the same way as macports-changes.
I'm not sure how macports-announce is set up. It's announce-only so
most people don't have permission to post there. Hopefully that
list's Reply To is set to macports-users.
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