Hey, Turns out it's a slow day and I'm enjoying learning a little about mailing list administration.
Mostly my gig here is just approving non-subscribed emails, so my mailman-fu is not strong. Nobody gave me any firm parameters for what being a list admin really entails, so I'm just going with my best judgment and by the way there are other list admins too. After completing the reading assignment, I have some more questions. There is clear direction from the Internet Gods that reply-to munging continues to spark discussion. Here are my questions. When I read emails now, in gmail, the sender is something like "Joe Subscriber via python.org", and there is just one sender -- no CC, nothing. The sender is the list, and I treat replies as though I'm on a bulletin board. The fact the message come from a list is clearly marked in the 'via' field, plus of course in the subject line where [melbourne-pug] is clearly added. What happens to incoming mail if (a) I set reply-to to be the poster (i.e. do not munge) (b) I set reply-to to be a specific and invalid email address The downside of not munging (as I now understand things) is the general confusion arising from sending emails *only* to the poster, then correcting afterwards, possibly some time later (if it is recognised at all). Well, according to the Zen of Python, errors should not pass silently! Would it be technically possible to set things up so that reply-all goes to the list, but there simple is no valid reply-to address at all? Luddites like me would be slowly trained to hit 'reply all', with pseudo-instant feedback. Those who hit 'reply' without thinking about who the message is going to (or with a very specific understanding of the term 'reply') will also get instant feedback and will not broadcast their private messages to all and sundry. Feel free to direct further conversations to me directly (note -- not by hitting reply!) and we can take some of the noise off the list. I continue to leave the settings unmodified while the discussion goes on. Cheers, -T On 3 June 2015 at 14:25, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm looks complicated. Seems like we could be better off with a Facebook > group. > > <ducks for cover/> > > > > On 3 June 2015 at 14:10, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1 informative >> >> I will happily do some further reading. >> >> On 3 June 2015 at 12:58, Andrew Stuart <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Here’s what Barry Warsaw (Mailman lead developer) has said on the topic: >>> >>> >>> http://wiki.list.org/DOC/What%20about%20setting%20a%20%22Reply-To-%22%20header%20for%20the%20list%3F >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> melbourne-pug mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Tennessee Leeuwenburg >> http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ >> "Don't believe everything you think" >> > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > Tennessee Leeuwenburg > http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ > "Don't believe everything you think" > -- -------------------------------------------------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"
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