Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe reply-to etiquette
Albert Y. C. Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B. This mailing list sets the List-Post header: List-Post: mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org Progressive mail clients honour this, e.g., Evolution. Thus you are given three buttons: I'm rather tied to my MUA, and while I'm not complaining (and Gnus lets me conpensate for different practices on a list-by-list basis), it's really the list management software, mailman, that should allow individual subscribers to configure the headers. So for people unhappy with the current situation, you can either fix mailman, or, for extra credit, write a better replacement in Haskell :-) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe reply-to etiquette
Justin Bailey wrote: When I joined the haskell-cafe mailing list, I was surprised to see the reply-to header on each message was set to the sender of a given message to the list, rather than the list itself. That seemed counter to other mailing lists I had been subscribed to, but I didn't think too much about it. In addition to agreeing with the article Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful, I want to remark that: A. This mailing list does not set the Reply-To header whatsoever. Not even to the author. When you hit reply, the destination is taken from From, not Reply-To. Thus I was surprised to see the reply-to header on each message was set to the sender was inaccurate. B. This mailing list sets the List-Post header: List-Post: mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org Progressive mail clients honour this, e.g., Evolution. Thus you are given three buttons: reply - Reply-To or From reply all - all found addresses reply to list - List-Post In my opinion this is the way to go. The semantics of List-Post is clear cut. The semantics of Reply-To is too overloaded to be relied on. I don't use Evolution - I am still at Thunderbird 1.5. It doesn't know the List-Post header. (But there may be plugins to add it.) But I do the little extra manual work of: reply all, then take out the author's address and just keep the list address. On the other hand, I completely don't mind receiving duplicates. In my opinion, if I choose to use dumb software, I should be the one making up for it, not ask the whole world to fudge semantics to please my dumb software. Lowest common denominators are evil. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe reply-to etiquette
On Dec 27, 2007 3:36 PM, Justin Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I joined the haskell-cafe mailing list, I was surprised to see the reply-to header on each message was set to the sender of a given message to the list, rather than the list itself. That seemed counter to other mailing lists I had been subscribed to, but I didn't think too much about it. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Cheers! --Tom Phoenix ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe reply-to etiquette
* Justin Bailey wrote: When I joined the haskell-cafe mailing list, I was surprised to see the reply-to header on each message was set to the sender of a given message to the list, rather than the list itself. That's good practice. That seemed counter to other mailing lists I had been subscribed to, but I didn't think too much about it. Please search for Reply-To considered harmful and send this text to the admins of the other lists. The discussion is older than Google. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe reply-to etiquette
When I joined the haskell-cafe mailing list, I was surprised to see the reply-to header on each message was set to the sender of a given message to the list, rather than the list itself. That seemed counter to other mailing lists I had been subscribed to, but I didn't think too much about it. Well, the comment below prompted me to ask the question - do people care? Personally, I like to respond to the list, keeping discussions open by default and reducing (potential) spam on someone's inbox. As impersonal as email can be, it also seems a bit intrusive to write someone directly who I don't have a prior relationship with except for responding to some message they happened to post. Thoughts? -- Forwarded message -- From: Claus Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 26, 2007 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2 To: Benjamin L. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [if this thread has to keep running, could you please drop me of the cc? and how did it manage to end up on haskell@ - that is the wrong list ] ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
