On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:44:55 -0700 "Foster, Dawn M" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. This does not actually seem to be the case yet. Even in your last message on this topic, I see no Reply-To: and as you can see from my message here (which was a "Reply" not a "Reply-All"), you are neither CC'd nor TO:. Only the list address was placed in the recipient headers. Today we had a bit of a run-around[1] because of this due to [PATCH] messages being lost because the ML was "eating" the CC addresses that are already subscribed to the ML. Shane... [1]http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-dev/2010-August/005236.html _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
