On 12/07/17 13:17, Jordan Brown wrote: > On 12/7/2017 9:15 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 12/07/17 00:43, Ron Beatteay via Mailman-Users wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I’m new to mailman. My previous Listserv platform ( LSoft ) made it easy >>> to reply to discussions by automatically sending replies to the list. With >>> mailman, replies go to the person, not the list,, so we have to make the >>> extra step of correcting the outgoing to: address. Is there a way to make >>> that default in settings? >> Yes. The documentation explains how. >> >> Short version for free: Edit /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py and add the >> following line anywhere AFTER 'from Defaults import *': >> >> DEFAULT_REPLY_GOES_TO_LIST = 1 > > But don't do it. Teach your users to use "Reply All" when they want to > talk to everybody and "Reply" when they want to talk to the author of > the particular message. > > Mailing list mechanisms that set "Reply-To" to point to the mailing list > inevitably lead to messages that are intended to be private being > accidentally sent to the entire list.
This is a religious dispute. Both schools of thought have their adherents and their vehement opponents, and some mailers still do not provide separate options for reply-to-sender and reply-to-list. The smart-money choice is to carefully consider on a list-by-list basis which policy is appropriate for the list in question. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
