Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply-To: Header in Mailinglists (was: About Fun with type functions example)

2010-11-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Bastian, I generally observe the pattern that non-technical mailing lists tend to set this header to help the user, while technical mailing list assume (rightfully, IMHO) that the readers are fine without Reply-To. The reasons against setting that I recall at the moment are: * Mails meant to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply-To: Header in Mailinglists

2010-11-19 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Hi Bastian, Bastian Erdnüß wrote: It would make my life a little bit more easy if the mailing lists on haskell.org would add a Reply-To: header automatically to each message containing the address of the mailing list, the message was sent to. Usually that's the place where others would want to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply-To: Header in Mailinglists (was: About Fun with type functions example)

2010-11-19 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Reply-to munging has come up many times on this list (and others). See this page for information on why many people do not like Reply-to munging: http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html - jeremy On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Bastian Erdnüß earth...@web.de wrote: Hi there, I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply-To: Header in Mailinglists

2010-11-19 Thread Bastian Erdnüß
On Nov 19, 2010, at 13:54, Tillmann Rendel wrote: Hi Bastian, Bastian Erdnüß wrote: It would make my life a little bit more easy if the mailing lists on haskell.org would add a Reply-To: header automatically to each message containing the address of the mailing list, the message was sent

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Ashok, I feel that the haskell mailing lists must have the reply-to field set, so that a person can reply to the list by just clicking reply. Most email clients have a followup or reply-to-all feature, that will do this. Better email clients also support (setting and reading) the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ashok Gautham scriptdevil.hask...@gmail.com wrote: I feel that the haskell mailing lists must have the reply-to field set, so that a person can reply to the list by just clicking reply. I am unsure if I am the only one facing this problem. This is a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009 11:05:05 schrieb Magnus Therning: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ashok Gautham scriptdevil.hask...@gmail.com wrote: I feel that the haskell mailing lists must have the reply-to field set, so that a person can reply to the list by just clicking reply. I am unsure

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread David Miani
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 20:42:38 Daniel Fischer wrote: Indeed. I have reply, reply-to-all and reply-to-list one click or one key combination away, and as far as I know those features are present in almost all mail clients since several years, so ease of replying to list shouldn't be an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi David, - Do you use To for the mailing list or for the parent? - Do you ever include the grand-parent in the recipient list? I use whatever my mail client does when I hit list-reply :-) For me (using mutt), that means to include any recipients and senders from the original message (so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread David Miani
On Thursday 07 May 2009 01:28:36 Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Hi David, - Do you use To for the mailing list or for the parent? - Do you ever include the grand-parent in the recipient list? I use whatever my mail client does when I hit list-reply :-) For me (using mutt), that means to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
Anyway, I can't see why we still use mailing lists when we have reddit, which has all the good parts of mailing lists (nested messages), while it also: Hmm, what's this reddit thing? *googles* Me too. Seems like this reddit thing is nothing but a mail list done wrong. I may be wrong, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009 16:57:16 schrieb David Miani: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 20:42:38 Daniel Fischer wrote: Indeed. I have reply, reply-to-all and reply-to-list one click or one key combination away, and as far as I know those features are present in almost all mail clients since several

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reply to

2009-05-06 Thread Magnus Therning
Miguel Mitrofanov wrote: Anyway, I can't see why we still use mailing lists when we have reddit, which has all the good parts of mailing lists (nested messages), while it also: Hmm, what's this reddit thing? *googles* Me too. Seems like this reddit thing is nothing but a mail list done

Re: [Haskell-cafe] reply to vincent foley's question about poker

2008-03-08 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Thomas Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instance (Enum a, Bounded a) = Arbitrary a where arbitrary = do n - choose (fromEnum (minBound :: a), fromEnum (maxBound :: a) ) return $ toEnum n I really think it's a bad idea to allow undecidable

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-cafe reply-to etiquette

2007-12-28 Thread Ben Franksen
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