On 3/06/2015 3:01 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
Hey,
Turns out it's a slow day and I'm enjoying learning a little about
mailing list administration.Â
Go back and look at Mark Hammond's contribution. Actually, look at the
Reply-to setting on his message.
Interesting!
Mike
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 <http://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.Â
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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
+1 informative
I will happily do some further reading.Â
On 3 June 2015 at 12:58, Andrew Stuart
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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