On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Foster, Dawn M wrote: > > On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:13 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 15:34 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Normally when a person replies to a mail sent by the mailing list, the >>> original author is in the To field, the mailing list is in the Cc >>> list, and the remainder of the Cc list is kept intact. >>> >>> However, this mailing list munges the Reply-To header, which accustoms >>> people (wrongly) to hit "reply to sender" instead of "reply to all". >>> This brings many disadvantages like: >>> 1) Personal level indicators don't work >>> 2) Searches by recipient don't work (to:me) >>> 3) The Cc list is not kept properly (which hurts cross-posting) >> >> This is evil and broken and should be fixed, I agree. >> > > The lists were originally configured with reply-to author as the default, but > I was asked to change the mailing lists to reply-to list by several key > people in the project. I've had several requests like this one, and I agree > with changing them back to reply-to author, instead of reply-to list. > > I'll make this change (reply-to author) in about 24 hours unless someone can > convince me otherwise. >
The MeeGo mailing lists, including this one, are now set to reply to poster, instead of reply to list. You may need to remember to reply to the list, instead of the poster, but it should cut down on accidental postings and maintain appropriate Cc lists, etc. Dawn _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
